With more than 4,000 active participants representing 44 countries and nearly 200 organizations, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives. DMTF management technologies are critical to enabling management interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools, and solutions within the enterprise. By deploying solutions that support DMTF standards, IT managers can choose to deploy a mix of systems and solutions that best meet their users' needs, while reducing management complexity and total cost of ownership.

Formed in 1992, the PCI-SIG is the industry organization chartered to develop and manage the PCI standard. With over 900 members, the PCI-SIG effectively places ownership and management of the PCI specifications in the hands of the developer community. A Board of Directors comprised of nine people, each elected by the membership, leads the PCI-SIG.

The PCI-SIG is chartered to:

• Maintain the forward compatibility of all PCI revisions or addenda.
• Contribute to both the establishment of PCI as an industry-wide standard and to the technical longevity of the PCI architecture.
• Maintain the PCI specification as a simple, easy-to-implement, stable technology that supports the spirit of its design.

The PCI-SIG fulfills its charter by continuing to promote innovation and evolve the PCI standard to meet the industry's needs. Through interoperability testing, technical support, seminars and industry events, the PCI-SIG enables its members to generate competitive and quality products.

TSANet is a worldwide, vendor-neutral infrastructure that provides the legal framework and contact database. Using the TSANet process, members agree to collaborate when a multivendor problem exists. TSANet allows partners to have a common entry point when contacting partners’ support centers in multivendor support incidents. TSANet is a behind-the-scenes process, and end-users are typically unaware that TSANet is being used as a mechanism of communication for the solution to their problem.