[occi-wg] OGF Strategic Directions for OCCI

[Alexis Richardson]

Incidentally, it would be good to see an OCCI update at the next
cloudcamp in london - sep 23rd.

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Alexis
Richardson<alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is great work - please keep it up guys!
>
> alexis (on vacation)
>
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> 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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