The focus is on Object-Oriented Technology, Tools and Techniques. The Network Applications Consortium NAC's mission is to improve the interoperability of mission-critical applications in a heterogeneous enterprise computing environment. The Consortium's goal is to influence the strategic direction of vendors developing enterprise application and infrastructure technologies. NAC's focus is to promote collaboration among members and to provide vendors with strategic feedback and technical requirements regarding product development and marketing strategies. The PKI Forum advocates industry cooperation and market awareness to enable organizations to understand and exploit the value of PKI in their e-business applications.
Directories are an essential part of the infrastructure necessary to conduct e-business.
By combining our efforts, the Forum wants to accelerate the availability of an e-business environment as a critical success factor for all companies wanting to leverage the Internet. The Directory Forum is interested in helping to advance open directories based on the LDAP standards, to make directories more useable, to help ensure that any application written to utilize an open directory will be able to run with any directory without regard to the supplier, and to make it easy for software developers to create those applications.