Mike Bennett tweets that he gave the "OMG an update on the current state of the IOTA Protocol" and "hope to have a more substantive draft for December but we can only submit formally once the IOTA2.0 specs are implemented on Mainnet, for March."
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) started defining a structure for a possible request for information on decentralzied digital identities, mentioning "IOTA Access".
The Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) met with the Middleware and Related Services Platform Task Force for updates from IOTA on the upcoming IOTA protocol submission. The groups also continued work on an RFP for Linked Encrypted Transaction Streams in the distributed ledger technology (DLT) space and considered a new RFP for context-specific, self-sovereign identity.
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) meeting notes state an upcoming Data Distribution Service (DDS) presentation, potentially “hooking up IOTA with GE”
IOTA joined the Digital Twin Consortium, formed by the Object Management Group, as a so-called "groundbreaker" that participated even before the inception of the working group. Other groundbreakers include Air Force Research Lab (US), Bentley Systems, Executive Development, Gafcon, Geminus.AI, Idun Real Estate Solutions AB, imec, IOTA Foundation, IoTIFY, Luno UAB, New South Wales Government, Ricardo, Willow Technology, and WSC Technology, next to the founding members Microsoft, Dell, Ansys and Lendlease.
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention clarification of semantics with regard to IOTA Masked Authenticated Messaging to achieve interoperability
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention an response from IOTA to information provided by GS1, a US-based information standards organization hosting the most widely used supply chain standards
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention a potential joint session with the OMG Cloud Working Group with regard to IOTA Permanodes
The OMG hosts another meeting of the "Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group", presenting updates on the process of "IOTA request for comment", further driving its standardisation
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mentions limiting the (member) scope of the working group once the process for request for proposals for IOTA has been started
The Eclipse Foundation, Dell Inc., STMicroelectronics, Software AG, Object Management Group, Accessec GmbH, Energinet, BiiLabs, Calypso Network Association, Engie Lab Crigen, RWTH Aachen University, Akita Blockchain Solutions, Geometric Energy Corp., TMForum, Otto-von-Guerike University and Iotify launch the "Tangle EE" Working Group to accelerate the commercial adoption of IOTA.
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) presentation mentions a presentation on updates of the IOTA Coordicide and intermediate “Chrysalis” release.
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mentions “IOTA Node / Tangle RFC” initiates and using them as blueprint for “LETS RFC’s”
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention a “demo by the I3 Consortium, showing practical implementations of IOTA, including robot vehicles running along a simulated section of the I5 (the main north-south freeway on the US West Coast) where vehicles were responding to information from electrical recharging stations in real time. Other features included sensors on the vehicles for CO2 and other gas levels, with this data being made available to the marketplace via the IOTA Tangle.”
Richard Soley, Chairman of the Object Management Group and Executive Director of the industrial Internet Consortium shares insights on industrial needs and applications for DLT and the standardisation of the IOTA protocol, predicted to happen in mid-2020.
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention an upcoming meeting and an “IOTA Tangle Request For Comment, a “review of [the] next draft”
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention “sensors in Jaguar Land-Rover. In the electric vehicle space. They have built an IOTA Wallet into the firmware of the car, both for receiving and making payments”
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention a presentation in which S.D. Nelson will eat fresh kale grown by the “IOTA Autonomous Gardner” as well as “PoCs on using MAM for supply chain integration” as well as a definition of Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM)
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) presentation mentions IOTA with regard to its “Linked Encrypted Transaction Streams” (LETS) standardisation proposal
The OMG publishes a press release about its vote on a set of standardized definitions required in government regulation, discussing standards for crypto assets as well as its progress on standardizing IOTA.
The OMG continues its efforts to establish the IOTA protocol as an industry standard, as outlined in the February progress report of the Finance Domain Task Force of the Enterprise Data Management Council.
The OMG Blockchain Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) call notes mention IOTA in regard to “data quality” and “responsible DLT’s”, especially with regard to governace
The OMG invites Alexander Renz and Paul Handy to a panel about "The Future of Distributed Ledger" at the OMG Blockchain event in Seattle, with Richard Soley being present as well.
The Object Management Group's Finance Domain Task Force plans a meeting to review the draft RFC for the standardisation of the IOTA tangle architecture
The Chicago Connectory invites Dr. Richard Soley to speak at an IOTA meetup at the Chicago Connectory, announcing that the Object Management group began standardisation procedures which are expected to be completed "likely next year".