[occi-wg] cloud-standards.org entries for OCCI updated

[Alan Sill]

Mark,

Great!  I'll look at that this evening, and also try to respond to the  
survey you mentioned.

If anyone in the WG wants to look at these ahead of time and suggest  
content,m I'd appreciate it!

Thanks,
Alan

On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Mark Carlson wrote:

> Alan,
>
> One other thing now that OCCI is a standard (soon), and that is to
> fill out the template for standards at the cloud-standard.org wiki
> site:
> http://cloud-standards.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template
>
> Here is an example we did for CDMI:
> http://cloud-standards.org/wiki/index.php?title=SNIA_Cloud_Data_Management_Interface_%28CDMI%29
>
> It's basically a sub-page of the main page that gets linked to by
> some text in the main OGF entry.
>
> This pulls together in one place a "standard" set of information for
> each cloud standard that helps to identify gaps and overlaps.
>
> Thanks,
> -- mark
>
> On 3/3/11 1:35 PM, Alan Sill wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Sill, Alan wrote:
>>
>>> After considerable prodding from Mark ;-) I have updated the entries
>>> for OGF and for the three current near-release OCCI documents in the
>>> table at http://cloud-standards.org
>>>
>>> Here is what I put in.  If you would like further details or  
>>> changes,
>>> let me or Mark know, or ask for an account.  I'll try to add  
>>> explicit
>>> references once the current OCCI-WG documents make it through the  
>>> OGF
>>> pipeline (hopefully soon - we are waiting for your document edits
>>> after the review period on the first two!).
>>
>> Sorry, forgot to include it; here for convenience is the current  
>> text:
>>
>> Open Grid Forum (OGF)
>> Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a leading standards development  
>> organization operating in the areas of grid, cloud and related  
>> forms of advanced distributed computing. The OGF community pursues  
>> these topics through an open process for development, creation and  
>> promotion of relevant specifications and use cases.
>> OGF partners and participants throughout the international arena  
>> use these standards to champion architectural blueprints related to  
>> cloud and grid computing and the associated software development.  
>> This work enables the community to pursue the pervasive adoption of  
>> advanced distributed computing techniques for business and research  
>> worldwide. Organizations throughout the world use the resulting  
>> clouds and grids as production distributed architectures built on  
>> these features to collaborate in areas as diverse as scientific  
>> data processing, drug discovery, cancer research, financial risk  
>> analysis, visualization and product design.
>> Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) Working Group
>> The Open Cloud Computing Interface comprises a set of open  
>> community-led specifications delivered through the Open Grid Forum.  
>> OCCI is a Protocol and API for all kinds of Management tasks. OCCI  
>> was originally initiated to create a remote management API for IaaS  
>> model based Services, allowing for the development of interoperable  
>> tools for common tasks including deployment, autonomic scaling and  
>> monitoring. It has since evolved into a flexible API with a strong  
>> focus on integration, portability, interoperability and innovation  
>> while still offering a high degree of extensibility. The current  
>> release of the Open Cloud Computing Interface is suitable to serve  
>> many other models in addition to IaaS, including e.g. PaaS and SaaS.
>> The current OCCI specification set consist of three documents, with  
>> others under preparation in the OGF standards pipeline. Future  
>> releases of OCCI may include additional rendering and extension  
>> specifications. The documents of the current OCCI specification  
>> suite are:
>> Open Cloud Computing Interface Core Specification
>> The Open Cloud Computing Interface is a boundary protocol and API  
>> that acts as a service front-end to a provider’s internal  
>> management framework. Service consumers can be both end-users and  
>> other system instances. OCCI is suitable for both cases. The key  
>> feature is that OCCI can be used as a management API for all kinds  
>> of resources while at the same time maintaining a high level of  
>> interoperability.
>> Open Cloud Computing Interface Infrastructure Specification
>> An OCCI implementation can model and implement an Infrastructure as  
>> a Service API offering by utilizing the OCCI Core Model. The OCCI  
>> Infrastructure specification contains the definition of the OCCI  
>> Infrastructure extension applicable for use in the IaaS domain.  
>> Such an API allows for the creation and management of typical  
>> resources associated with an IaaS service. These infrastructure  
>> types inherit the OCCI Core Model Resource base type and all of its  
>> attributes.
>> Open Cloud Computing Interface HTTP Rendering Specification
>> OCCI HTTP Rendering defines how to interact with the OCCI Core  
>> Model using the RESTful OCCI API. The document defines how the OCCI  
>> Core Model can be communicated and thus serialized using the HTTP  
>> protocol.
>> Other OCCI-related Documents
>> OGF and SNIA have collaborated on a Cloud Storage for Cloud  
>> Computing whitepaper. See also the page on this wiki on Open Cloud  
>> Computing Interface Terms and Diagrams.
>>
>>
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Alan Sill, Ph.D
Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics
TTU

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