What is the DMTF?

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As you may know, WinRM and WMI are implementations of public standards -- WMI is our implementation of CIM, and WinRM is our implementation of the WS-Management protocol.  These are both published by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a consortium of 160 companies and organizations that develops and promotes standards for systems management.  You can read more about them at https://www.dmtf.org/about.

The world of standards development can b a strange and confusing one.  If you want to learn more about the DMTF, what they produce, and how they're organized, there's a great tutorial hosted by WBEM Solutions that explains it clearly: https://www.wbemsolutions.com/tutorials/DMTF.

Enjoy!

Nathan Burkhart

Program Manager | WS-Management