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DMTF CR Tool

In order to facilitate the continued development of the DMTF CIM Schema by our Alliance Partners, the Schema Subcommittee has made the CR tool available for download (38MB .zip) The tool will be updated with the latest version of the CIM Schema upon release.  Please be sure to use the latest version of the tool when generating CRs against the CIM Schema. 

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An individual contributor (“Contributor” or “You”) submitting a new technical submittal (“Contribution”) to the DMTF for consideration to become part of a technical standard must agree to the DMTF Member Policies set forth at www.dmtf.org/about/policies including specifically the Member Rules of Conduct as revised effective May 01, 2009, with its provisions for DMTF ownership of all contributed IP.

You must disclose to the DMTF Technical Committee your personal knowledge or awareness of any patent which could be infringed by an implementation of your Contribution.

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