[dcifed-wg] DCIFed status

[Gary Mazz]

Hi,

I working on a taxonomy focusing on asset management aggregation. CDMI 
is well on its way identifying a class of assets and a taxonomy for 
describing policies pertaining to deployment strategies.

OVF, can be considered a XML representation of a DMFT CIM profile. This 
is important positioning statement maturing OGF/DMTF integration.  
However, OVF is only an XML interchange format for VM deployments.

A paper on synergies between OCCI/CDMI/OVF is may be a little weak at 
this point, especially since there is no commitment from the DMTF of 
moving forward with this initiative.

  I have released a presentation on bonding OVF to CDMI, I had also 
placed one of my developers working on the implementation part time in 
April. The presentation was posted on the OCCI mailing list a few weeks 
ago. It included a mapping of OVF elements to OCCI resources as well as 
a list of unreconciled issues pertaining to incongruous behavioral models.

There are several unresolved issues I had wanted to get addressed in 
Boulder, but exploring OGF/DMTF logistics, alignment of  use cases, fit 
into road maps and DMTF jockeying for meaningless political control of 
activities, interfered with any practical progress on the 
implementation. BTW, please exclude Winston Bumpus from any statements 
about the DMTF, Winston is always the most gracious.

Just as a matter of historical record, the discussion of bringing OVF 
into the OCCI offering started over a year ago last year between Mark 
Carlson and myself. Although there had been some preliminary discussions 
in the OCCI working group, the meeting with Mark Carlson resulted in me 
committing any excess AlloyCloud funding towards that goal. One major 
issue inhibiting progress was the state of the OCCI specifications. I'll 
restart work on the OVF project as funding/resources becomes available.  
I hope to have a working OVF implementation as a well as a new c++ OCCI 
code and CDMI support in OpenNebula by the end of this year.

Back to DCI-Fed

We can take a few strategies for use cases:

1) Develop our own...
2) Leverage use cases referenced in other intiatives and stds we are 
considering for inclusion in DCI-Fed
3) Refer to documented best practice white papers and case studies.

Before we jump in with two feet and having all oars driving in a 
direction, we need to have a meeting on vision and outcome, just to make 
sure we are all on the same page.

@Craig, do you have a reference on Vivek's document management pitch ?

-gary



On 5/30/2011 11:46 AM, Craig Lee wrote:
> Alex, Gary, et al.,
>
> I strongly encourage a short write-up on OCCI/CDMI/OVF.  These three 
> standards were mentioned as a group multiple times at the NIST Cloud 
> Standards Summit (both Alan and I attended).  This group also appears 
> in the NIST Cloud Standards Roadmap -- the first complete draft should 
> be available this June.  I can't promise this material would get into 
> the Roadmap, but we need to make the strongest possible, defensible 
> recommendations wrt existing and emerging standards for cloud computing.
>
> Wrt Use Cases -- and broad use case requirements -- many sets of cloud 
> use cases have been compiled, even among the NIST Cloud WGs.  If 
> DCIFed wants to compile another set of use cases, I would recommend 
> taking some time to at least review and comment on the other sets that 
> have been compiled.  I agree with the use case requirements that Gary 
> mentions in his earlier email.  I would add, though, that Vivek Kundra 
> has said that _document management_, i.e., document workflow, is the 
> single largest use case for the US gov.  (This is probably true for 
> all governments!) It also seems to me that secure access through 
> mobile devices, i.e., smartphones, is also high on the list.
>
> --Craig
>
> On 5/30/11 7:48 AM, alexander.papaspyrou at tu-dortmund.de wrote:
>> Hey Gary,
>>
>> putting your last message to the list as well...
>>
>> Am 23.05.2011 um 01:00 schrieb Gary Mazz:
>>
>>> The other cloud groups are trying to coordinate.... We will need to 
>>> leverage this work
>>
>> Most definitely.
>>
>>> NIST is looking to compiles a list standards, use cases and 
>>> scenarios  that can be applied to cloud and distributed computing. 
>>> We will need to leverage this work also.
>>
>> Sure. Maybe we can do a short write up of how the OCCI/CDMI/OVF 
>> integration would address the NIST stuff. I remember Alan pointing me 
>> to some NIST standards wiki pages with a table of use cases and cloud 
>> desiderata -- would be a good starting point to show what the DCIfed 
>> integration is supposed to address, if we assume OCCI/OVF/CDMI to be 
>> this integration.
>>
>>> I'm trying to put a cloud consumer working group together around 
>>> DCI-Fed. Tony DiCenzo Director Standards committed Oracle's 
>>> assistance. CA may also participate, if we ask nice. :) Use case and 
>>> scenario work needs to proceed with the user community
>>
>> That sounds very interesting. Can we help you with anything on this?
>>
>>> I also just sent an email on "hot issues" from the largest IT 
>>> consumer in the US Fed.., Its part of defining requirement areas for 
>>> technical focus.
>>
>> Yep, seen that. Comments in that mail.
>>
>> Best,
>> Alexander
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