[Capi-bof] Cloud Standards Roadmap

Tue Mar 24 14:56:57 CDT 2009

This is a minor point relative to all you've done here, but the word
"Fabric" is a bit overloaded. We use it to refer to functions of the
platform layer, as do others (e.g. here
<http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/11/14/cloud-types/> , here
<http://blogs.the451group.com/cloudcover/vendors/im-a-sucker-for-a-good-
map/> ). There are certainly examples of use at the network layer. 

Perhaps we could refer to the layer beneath the infrastructure as
"Network Services."

Sam

From: cloud-standards at googlegroups.com
[mailto:cloud-standards at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sam Johnston
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:21 AM
To: Cloud Standards; CCIF; capi-bof
Subject: Cloud Standards Roadmap

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.

Sam

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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_Architectu
re>  

	*	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+Tool
s>  
		*	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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