[Capi-bof] Cloud Standards Roadmap

[Sam Johnston]

Morning all,

I have added the Cloud Standards
Roadmap<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Cloud_Standards_Roadmap>to
the Cloud
Computing Community Wiki <http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/>. Please review it
and let me know if there are any efforts I have missed (or better yet, add
them to the wiki). We can use this document as an authorative source to
track standardisation efforts and hopefully prevent
duplication/proliferation.

Thanks,

Sam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Subject: [Sam Johnston] Cloud Standards Roadmap
To: samj at samj.net

Almost a year ago in "Cloud Standards: not so
fast...<http://samj.net/2008/08/cloud-standards-not-so-fast.html>"
I explained why standardisation efforts were premature. A lot has happened
in the interim and it is now time to start intensively developing standards,
ideally by deriving the "consensus" of existing implementations.

To get the ball rolling I've written a Cloud Standards
Roadmap<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Cloud_Standards_Roadmap>which
can be seen as an authorative source for information spanning the
various standardisation efforts (including identification of areas where
effort is required).

Currently it looks like this:

Cloud Standards Roadmap

The cloud standards roadmap tracks the status of relevant standards efforts
underway by established multi-vendor standards bodies.

Layer Description Group Project Status Due  Client  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  Software
(SaaS) Operating environment
W3C<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium> HTML
5 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5> Draft 2008  Event-driven scripting
language ECMA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMA>
ECMAScript<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript> Mature
1997  Data-interchange format IETF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF>
JSON<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON>(
RFC4627 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627>) Mature 2006  Platform
(PaaS) Management
API  ?  ?  ?  ?  Infrastructure (IaaS) Management API
OGF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Grid_Forum> Cloud
Infrastructure API (CIA) Formation 2009  Container format for virtual
machines DMTF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Management_Task_Force>
Open
Virtualisation Format
(OVF)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format>
Complete
2009  Descriptive language for resources
DMTF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Management_Task_Force>
CIM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Information_Model_%28computing%29>
Mature
1999  Fabric  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Other standards efforts

   - Cloud Standards
Group<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Cloud_Standards_Group>
      - Cloud Computing Reference
Model<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Cloud_Computing_Reference_Model>
      - Cloud Computing
Stack<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Cloud_Computing_Stack>
      - Cloud Platform Reference
Architecture<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Cloud_Platform_Reference_Architecture>
   - CCIF <http://www.cloudforum.org/>
UCI<http://code.google.com/p/unifiedcloud/>- A "
   *singular programmatic point of contact that can encompass the entire
   infrastructure stack as well as emerging cloud centric technologies all
   through a unified interface*"

Vendor-owned standards

   - Infrastructure
      - Amazon EC2
API<http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/DeveloperGuide/>
      - AppNexus
API<https://wiki.appnexus.com/display/documentation/Linux+Command-Line+Tools>
      - ElasticHosts API <http://www.elastichosts.com/products/api>
      - Eucalyptus <http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/wiki/API_v1.4> (which uses
      the Amazon EC2 API)
      - FlexiScale API <https://api.flexiscale.com/current/doc/>
      - Globus Numbus <http://workspace.globus.org/> (which uses the Amazon
      EC2 API and WSRF <http://www.globus.org/wsrf/>)
      - GoGrid API <http://wiki.gogrid.com/wiki/index.php/API>
      - OpenNebula
API<http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rel1.2:api>
      - SliceHost API <http://www.slicehost.com/docs/Slicehost_API.pdf>
      - Sun Cloud APIs <http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis>
   - Fabric
      - F5 iControl
<http://www.f5.com/products/technologies/open-apis/>(Networking)

Other resources

   - Apache Tashi <http://incubator.apache.org/tashi/>
   - OASIS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS> Reference Model for Service
   Oriented Architecture<http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/v1.0/soa-rm.html>


Please check the Cloud Computing Community
Wiki<http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/>for the latest version as this
information will be quickly dated. If you
have any updates please feel free to contribute them.
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