[occi-wg] Quick OCCI Update

[Andre Merzky]

Hi Gary, 

what is your problem with the wiki?  Your GridForge account
has Member and Author permissions on the project, which
should allow any action on the wiki.

Best, Andre.


Quoting [Gary Mazz] (Jun 08 2009):
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:16:10 -0600
> From: Gary Mazz <garymazzaferro at gmail.com>
> To: "occi-wg at ogf.org" <occi-wg at ogf.org>
> Subject: Re: [occi-wg] Quick OCCI Update
> 
> Before anyone hops on the snia bandwagon as an advocate, we need to 
> assess the "level" in cloud architecture that the snai api addresses. We 
> need to ask the question is their api an IaaS level api or  focuses at 
> some other level. Or have we relegated ourselves to throwing everything  
> we can find in a rubbish heap ?
> 
> Incorrectly positioning functions and features can/will adversely affect 
> success of the IaaS interoperability specification and the 
> implementability of the OCCI IaaS api.
> 
> I have included a diagram with a proposed division of responsibilities 
> for each cloud layer.
> 
> If someone would like to add it the to wiki for comment, it would be 
> appreciated. ( my occi wiki permissions aren't quite right)
> 
> Comments welcome, as aways.
> 
> -gary
> 
> 
> Sam Johnston wrote:
> >Afternoon all,
> >
> >Over the last few weeks I've been busy evangelising OCCI at various 
> >cloud computing events througout Europe:
> >
> >    * Cloud Computing Expo - Prague (18, 19 May 2009)
> >    * Cloud Computing Expo - London (20, 21 May 2009)
> >    * Cloud Views Conference - Porto (28, 29 May 2009)
> >
> >In addition to doing the Introduction to the Open Cloud Computing 
> >Interface (OCCI) 
> ><http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ddqm27m2_298fsf9mqdg> 
> >presentation I had the opportunity to sit on panels at the events and 
> >to introduce "Interoperability" as the topic for Cloud Views 2010. It 
> >was great to meet many of you and to have various opportunities to 
> >discuss (often at length) the API - some great feedback was given and 
> >good progress made on working towards consensus. We've found ways to 
> >evict Atom from individual resources and adopt a simple key/value 
> >descriptor format for a start which should make some of you very happy.
> >
> >I also spent 90 minutes running through and discussing OCCI with the 
> >SNIA Cloud TWG at their last meeting (last week) which I think is a 
> >great opportunity for us to ensure that our respective standards are 
> >at least somewhat compatible and avoid a rerun of WS-* (I would hope 
> >for example that we can use an SNIA descriptor format to define 
> >non-trivial storage resources). Thijs is busy formalising this 
> >arrangement and a similar one with the DMTF and I encourage those of 
> >you who are interested in these projects to join them so we can get 
> >some cross-pollination going on (especially those of you employed by 
> >member companies - neither group is as open as we are).
> >
> >Anyway I'm back this week after my partner's surgery and between 
> >looking after her while she recovers over the course of the month I'm 
> >hoping we can make some good progress quickly. It's in all of our 
> >interests to deliver while we still have an opportunity to be relevant 
> >as the last thing we want is to end up playing follow the leader 
> >(regardless of whether the leader happens to be VMware via DMTF or 
> >Amazon with an "open" EC2).
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Sam
> >
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