http://www.ichnet.org/
The Mission of the ICH is to promote mechanisms for assuring the successful implementation of enterprise technology solutions.
Our Vision is to contribute to society by enabling and encouraging
Adaptive, architecture-independent solutions to common IT challenges (including enterprise integration, knowledge management, and infrastructure security)
Greater IT success rates through improved alignment, management of complexity and change, and communications between buyers and suppliers of solution components
Our Guiding Principles are
Transparency in motives and influences
Sharing of infrastructure knowledge for the common good
Trustworthy, accurate, and timely contextualized information
Our Goals include the creation of measurable improvements in the IT capabilities of member organizations:
Better alignment of architectures and components with key business drivers
Better understanding of critical issues and solutions (including interoperability and security)
Better intra- and inter-organizational collaboration for solving common problems and increasing competencies in critical technical areas
Better leverage and reuse of lessons and innovations
The ICH Value Proposition
We serve members and the general public by helping to advance the capability and integrity of information and communication infrastructures by
Offering research, products, and services for improving the consistency and efficacy of technical systems toward enterprise ends
Providing a venue for sharing critical knowledge about technologies, standards, models, processes, strategies, criteria, and sources (including requirements identification and mapping approaches, engineering practices, architectural alternatives, component interoperabilities, proven solutions to common problems, risk mitigations, success factors, and so on)
Managing a shared knowledge base of vetted information about commercial and government off-the-shelf technologies (including functions, features, standards compliance, and implementation successes)
Fostering understanding, consensus, and active cooperation among industry, government, and academia in defining conditions, opportunities, and threats and in advancing infrastructure capability and security
Promoting demand for such advancement by increasing awareness through public relations programs and interactions with technology and user communities
Anticipating the need for further advancements by actively monitoring changing business, technological, and security conditions
Has a good glossary: http://www.ichnet.org/glossary.htm
