ISO/IEC 19770-3 "OWG" is Convened for Software Entitlement Tag Standard

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Sassafras is an enthusiastic participant in the active standards development work of ISO/IEC 19770-2 and 19770-3 which promises to facilitate an evolution toward entitlement centric software licensing. The ISO/IEC 19770-3 Other Working Group ("OWG") was convened on September 9, 2008. Over thirty Software Asset Management (SAM) industry participants had joined the work as of that date and more are continuing to join. The Working Group has been tasked with drafting an international data standard for software license entitlement tags. Details of the OWG's work and an invitation to join the effort are included in this article.