----- Original Message ----- From: "Arjun Asthana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No. Not exactly. Mil grade means the software does exactly and only what it is suppose to do. *Sigh* What is an elephant really like ? - Asked the blind men (no offence intended). US DoD has Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment(DII COE) stanard in place for this purpose. DII COE is a set of standards and guidelines that describe a "plug and play" open architecture designed around a client/server model defined by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA). DISA collects the requirements from the U.S. Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and so on, and then works with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, to create a platform-independent environment called the COE Kernel. DISA distributes this code to vendors and integrators for porting to various platforms. DISA also distributes a set of requirements concerning features of the environment (for example, minimal required tools for networking, system, and account management) and the procedures to be followed in order to be certified. DII COE is designed to provide a common information technology architecture, to promote interoperability, and to establish cross-platform capabilities for the increasingly diverse US Department of Defense (DOD) operations. These criteria include compliance with industry standards, commercial testing, and satisfaction of DISA interoperability, security, and functional requirements. But the Kernel Certification program has however been lately stopped. Basically since most of the other countries adapted to computers etc. on a mass sale much later than US, it made sense for them to simply adapt USA's standards (which were already in place) regards this. Some of the standards included in COE are POSIX (1003.1 & 1003.2), X11, Motif, CDE, TCP/IP. Quoting just *one* of these criterions would be plain wrong. Perhaps the original poster should have also mentioned "which military" ? Answer will differ depending on that. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
