If you've been following the progress of the CMDBf spec through my blog postings, you understand how proud and happy I am at the news that the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force), the "the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives" announced that it "accepted a draft specification that will facilitate the sharing of information between Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) and other management data repositories (MDRs). The new spec, which was submitted by the CMDB Federation (CMDBf) working group, aims to enable organizations to federate and access information from complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures."
As I described in my blog posting "The remarkable tale of the birth of a standard," acceptance by a standards body is the next logical step that a specification takes on its way to providing value as an accepted public standard. You can read the full DMTF press release here.