(DMTF) The industry consortium that develops, supports, and maintainsstandards for systems management of PCsystems and products, to reduce total cost of ownership. These include the Desktop Management Interface (DMI), the most-widely used management standard today. The DMTF is participating in an industry effort to create a standard for management over the Internet. They are defining an object-orientedCommon Information Model (CIM). start . (2000-01-19)