Open Stovepipe is a pipe dream that is never intended to be realized. This is the primary source of all information relating to the work of the Open Stovepipe Network Adapter Program (OSNAP).

This website is the companion site to the yet to be published article by Skayl about creation of Just Enough Data Model. As soon as the paper is posted online, this information will be updated.

Stovepipes are incredibly effective constructs for isolating information and routing to another location without, necessarily, preserving the context. When used in software and systems integration, stovepipes are an effective way to create (and sustain) vendor-lock, or, the sole-reliance on a single vendor for all future changes.

Industry has attempted to eliminate vendor-lock by creating well-defined standards that allow for integration via commonality. This works reasonably well as long as there are common things to be defined. However, vendors often want to obscure proprietary data or optimize their implementations.

These factors work against a common, standardized definition. As a result, while open is goal, stovepipe is the unintended result.

The mission of Open Stovepipe is to: