[occi-wg] NITRD talk and input for upcoming SDO panel at Telecom Cloud workshop

[Alan Sill]

I'd like to call the attention of SCRM-WG and OCCI-WG participants to  
to a  talk that I gave yesterday on OGF at the National Coordination   
Office NITRD MAGIC meeting yesterday to a group of US government  
program officers and representatives from various federal  funding  
agencies.  The purpose of this talk was to call OGF's activities to  
their attention and to make the case for further involvement from  
participants in the projects that they fund in the activities and  
working groups within OGF.

http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu/asill/ogf/nitrd/MAGIC-Dec2010-OGF-Standards-Intro-Web.pdf

This talk highlighted our joint work with other standards development  
organizations, our recent work on OCCI and cooperation with CDMI being  
developed by SNIA, as well as covering some of the background and  
motivation for OGF in general.  Your comments and feedback would be  
appreciated.

Also, next week Monday and Tuesday there is a Telecom Cloud  
Information Day and Workshop being sponsored by the Open management  
Group (OMG) that will feature talks on OCCI by Craig Lee as well as a  
large amount of material presented by other organizations.  As part of  
that workshop, I have been invited to lead a panel on "Existing Cloud  
Standards Roadmaps, Related SDO Collaboration Work and Top Issues"  
that will draw on audience participation and feedback from other  
Telecom Cloud participants.  It is to be followed by a session on  
"Strategy for Cloud Standards Collaboration Roadmap Development " to  
be led by Bob Marcus of Huawei.

While I am familiar with US NIST, European SIENA, and several of the  
other cloud and grid project roadmapping efforts in Japan, South  
America, etc., as well as other private efforts, I think that a lot of  
the work being done by the SCRM and OCCI groups could usefully be  
highlighted in these sessions.  I invite feedback either individually  
or collectively to these lists regarding points you would like to  
highlight, SDO collaboration of all types regardless of the level of  
formality, and proper methods for engagement by parties that may not  
have yet been part of your work in the activities being pursued in  
each of these OGF work groups.  I am also interested in items and  
topics for outward engagement.

Please let me know either privately or by postings to the appropriate  
work group lists your thoughts on any or all of the above.  Thanks for  
all that each of you has done to promote our work within OGF to date,  
as well as on engagements with outside SDOs.

Alan Sill, Ph.D
Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics
TTU

Vice President of Standards
Open Grid Forum

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