The current activities of the Data Distribution SIG are:

• Maintenance of the DDS SIG Portal

• Organization of technology and interoperability demonstrations. We organized 2 interoperability demonstration in 2009, each involving 3 vendors, 2 interoperability demos in 2010, each involving 4 vendors, and one in 2011 involving 5 vendors (RTI, PrismTech, TwinOaks, Gallium Visual Systems, and IBM).  

• Serve as a focus point for the evolution of the DDS standard family. This involves surveying the user-based to determine the most interesting directions and contributing to the creation of RFPs. Several new RFPs have been issued and have become standards as a result of this work. In 2009 and 2010 we adopted 3 new specifications: Extensible Types for DDS, ISO-C++ language binding for DDS and Java5 Language binding for DDS. We also issued two additional RFPs:  Web-Enabled DDS and DDS Security which we expect will become standard in 2011. 

• Evangelizing the DDS technology. Primarily via the creation of materials (whitepapers, tutorials) on DDS. The main venues for the tutorials are the OMG technical meetings and the OMG Real-Time Workshop

• Coordination of the creation of a catalog of success stories.