From the DMTF WebSite: Founded in 1992, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption.

DMTF enables a more integrated and cost effective approach to management through interoperable solutions.

DMTF standards provide common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way.