[occi-wg] OGF Strategic Directions for OCCI

[Alexis Richardson]

I am MC'ing so it would be tricky.


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Sam Johnston<samj at samj.net> wrote:
> 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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