====== Charter/Mission approved ======

To increase the benefits and reduce the costs, risks and timescales of using Information Technology within the retail sector by:

  * Developing and promoting standardized retail business models and practices that foster a shared understanding of retail business principles, terminology and data between retailers and their suppliers.
  * Establishing technical standards, specifications and best practices that enable communication of business data within retail enterprises, and between retail enterprises and their suppliers.
  * Creating standards for the integration of IT applications and devices into retail business systems.
  * Communicating the requirements of the retail industry to IT suppliers & users, both inside and outside OMG.

===== Operational OMG/NRF Agreement highlights =====

  * RDTF membership for NRF members
  * ARTS artifacts – location and downloading from [[http://www.omg.org/retail|www.omg.org/retail]]
  * ARTS brand will move to OMG, but ownership is still with NRF during the transition (2 years)
  * OMG Request for Comment (RFC)/Request for Proposal (RFP) process to adopt ARTS standards as OMG standards