[occi-wg] OGF Strategic Directions for OCCI

[Sam Johnston]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Alexis Richardson <
alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Are you volunteering? ;)

Sam


> 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)
> >
> >
> > 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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