Defines and documents the architecture and language infrastructure that is the foundation for DMTF management profiles, registries, protocols and schemas. The key properties of Architecture for Managed Computing Systems are the Specification of the CIM Infrastructure, (meta-model and qualifiers, and the MOF language); the Specification of Generic Operations, the Specification of the CIM Query Language (CQL); the Specification of Standard Message infrastructure; and the Specification of a mapping between the CIM meta-model and the OMG Unified Modeling Language