[occi-wg] OGF Strategic Directions for OCCI

[Alexis Richardson]

This is great work - please keep it up guys!

alexis (on vacation)


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Craig A Lee<Craig.A.Lee at aero.org> wrote:
>
> To All in the OCCI/OGF Community,
>
> As you should know, the OCCI WG will be sending their Use Case and
> Requirements document to the OGF Editor soon and is finishing their
> draft specification in time for discussion at OGF-27.  Given the tremendous
> interest in cloud computing, this gives the OCCI WG and OGF a set of
> important opportunities that could have high visibility -- and
> hopefully high impact.
>
> I have pinged the potential implementors listed on the wiki, and as
> of this email,
>   * OpenNebula,
>   * Cisco CTO Cloud Concept Lab, and
>   * SLA at SOI
> have all re-affirmed their commitment to implement the OCCI spec.
>
> Clearly, once we have some implementations, we will be in a position
> to organize a set of open IaaS cloud demonstrations.  This was
> discussed on the last cloud-standards.org telecon with a very positive
> reaction.  Any such demos could certainly integrate the use of other
> standards, such as DMTF's OVF and SNIA's CDMI.
>
> The exact demo scenarios to approach is clearly an important issue.
> These scenarios should be ones that are important to the major
> potential adopters and users of OCCI.  The large-scale, national cloud
> initiatives that have been announced recently could be a good source
> for such scenarios, and help drive open standards, since they will
> want portability and interoperability to avoid vendor lock-in.  Hence,
> OGF is actively pursuing engagement within the Japanese Kasumigaseki
> Cloud, the UK G-Cloud, and the US Cloud Storefront efforts.
>
> Finally I want caveat all of these plans -- this simply is the
> strategic direction
> that OGF is taking, and obviously no particular outcomes are guaranteed.
> We must, however, plan ahead for the implementations that are coming.
> As always, comments are welcome.
>
> Best regards -- and I look forward to seeing you in Banff,
>
> --Craig
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