[occi-wg] Special Session about OCCI at Closer 2016

Boris Parak xparak at mail.muni.cz
Fri Apr 1 06:10:16 EDT 2016


Hi Augusto, All,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Augusto Ciuffoletti
<augusto at di.unipi.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> so we have the final schedule of the OCCI Special Session at Closer:
>
> http://closer.scitevents.org/TechnicalProgram/View/TechnicalProgram.aspx
>
> On April 24th, besides the four conference papers, we plan to have informal
> briefs about OCCI developments by Boris Parak, Jean Parpaillon and myself,
> as well as some time for discussion: the session has been extended until
> 18:45. The day after, April 25th, we have a further session to discuss
> technical aspects from 10:15 to 12:15. The agenda for this day will be
> defined on the 24th.

Thank you!

> See you in Rome!

See you there.

> Augusto

Boris

>
> 2016-03-22 19:10 GMT+01:00 Wolfgang Ziegler
> <Wolfgang.Ziegler at scai.fraunhofer.de>:
>>
>> Thanks Augusto, perfect
>>
>> Am 22.03.16 um 18:41 schrieb Augusto Ciuffoletti:
>> > Alan and all,
>> >
>> > I understand your point: in fact, the extended session we are about
>> > provides a
>> > place for informal discussion, and to take advantage of a conference to
>> > improve
>> > the outreach. Boris and Jean are available to help me, and this is
>> > encouraging.
>> > I am glad to know that the documents are in their final form: I
>> > misinterpreted a
>> > sentence in one of previous emails.
>> >
>> > Wolfgang, the session is scheduled on April 24th, from 16:00 to 19:00.
>> >
>> > Augusto
>> >
>> >
>> > 2016-03-22 16:08 GMT+01:00 Sill, Alan <alan.sill at ttu.edu
>> > <mailto:alan.sill at ttu.edu>>:
>> >
>> >     Hi Augusto,
>> >
>> >     Thanks for this information. A couple of points and observations are
>> > below.
>> >
>> >        1) When I suggested a special session for an OCCI WG meeting, it
>> > was with
>> >     the idea in mind that of course OGF sessions that result in
>> > contributions to
>> >     documents need to be run according to OGF IP rules, with sign-in
>> > sheets and
>> >     acknowledgement forms etc. in order to protect the integrity of the
>> > IP
>> >     process that produces these documents. Hence these are usually
>> > extra,
>> >     separate sessions that are not mixed with conference sessions.
>> >
>> >       2) Thijs has separately clarified that the OCCI 1.2 document set
>> > is
>> >     considered complete, and I believe that it is in front of the OGF
>> > GFSG now
>> >     for final review. Jens can clarify its exact status. If there are
>> > any
>> >     changes that are needed to this document set before publication, we
>> > need to
>> >     know right away.
>> >
>> >     My suggestion for an implementation community group would be to
>> > gather
>> >     people together specifically around the idea of promoting progress
>> > on OCCI
>> >     1.2 implementations as rapidly as possible to take advantage of the
>> > recent
>> >     document work. Of course, people are welcome to present conference
>> > papers
>> >     and talks as they like, but I was hoping to encourage a more
>> > coordinated effort.
>> >
>> >     Please let us know if you need OGF sign-in sheets for a
>> > document-oriented
>> >     meeting for the items proposed by Boris, and if it will be possible
>> > to
>> >     arrange a special session to focus on this (or on the community
>> >     implementation group) beyond the papers at the conference itself.
>> >
>> >     Alan
>> >
>> >>     On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:28 AM, Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >> <augusto at di.unipi.it
>> >>     <mailto:augusto at di.unipi.it>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     The tentative agenda of the extended special session follows. The
>> >> time
>> >>     slots reserved to the four Closer presentations have been reduced
>> >> to 25
>> >>     minutes, and thus we have time for two slots of 20 minutes each for
>> >> occi
>> >>     1.2 review and implementations, and one 5 minutes slot for 2.0
>> >>     perspectives. At the end, we have time for an open discussion
>> >> before closing.
>> >>
>> >>     16:00 - Introduction of the special session - Augusto
>> >>     16:05 - #1 Evolution of The Open Cloud Computing Interface, by
>> >> Boris Parak
>> >>     et al.
>> >>
>> >>     16:30 - #2 Easing Scientific Computing and Federated Management in
>> >> the
>> >>     Cloud with OCCI, by Zdenek Šustr et al_._
>> >>
>> >>     16:55 - #3 SLAaaS: an OCCI compliant framework for cloud SLA
>> >> provisioning
>> >>     and violation detection, by G. Katsaros et al.
>> >>
>> >>     17:20 - #4 Beyond Nagios - Design of a cloud monitoring system, by
>> >> Augusto
>> >>     Ciuffoletti
>> >>     17:45 - ogf#1 review of OCCI 1.2 - summary, status of documents,
>> >> feedback
>> >>     (Boris?) (10' brief + 10' discussion)
>> >>     18:05 - ogf#2 Implementations of OCCI 1.2: short & long term plans,
>> >>     foresee-able challenges, project road-maps, OCCIware project
>> >> (Jean?) (10'
>> >>     brief +10' discussion)
>> >>     18:25 - ogf#3 Perspective on OCCI 2.0: XML rendering, filtering,
>> >>     transport, attribute types refinement (Augusto?) (5' brief)
>> >>     18:30 - Open discussion
>> >>     19:00 - Extended special session close
>> >>
>> >>     The three OGF talks (together with the four paper presentations)
>> >> should
>> >>     improve the outreach of OCCI.
>> >>     The final open discussion should help to finalize the submitted
>> >> documents.
>> >>
>> >>     Many items among those suggested by Jean and Boris are not
>> >> scheduled. The
>> >>     inventory:
>> >>     -) discussion on changes which didn't get into OCCI 1.2
>> >>     -) Extending OCCI's query interface -- in-depth discussion on query
>> >>     interface extensions, multi-location set-ups, advertising
>> >> endpoints,
>> >>     etc.
>> >>     -) Towards OCCI 2.0 -- preliminary discussions, roadmap
>> >>     -) Filtering in OCCI -- this discussion is long overdue :-)
>> >>     -) Transport protocol extensions -- perhaps AMQP, any other ideas?
>> >>     -) Rendering extensions -- for the next release, we should finally
>> >>     get XML into the standard
>> >>     -) OpenAPI/Swagger
>> >>
>> >>     Some of them are challenging and urgent, but I think that now we
>> >> should
>> >>     really focus on closing the 1.2 documents, and consider them as
>> >> building
>> >>     blocks.
>> >>
>> >>     Augusto
>> >>
>> >>     2016-03-19 8:41 GMT+01:00 Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto at di.unipi.it
>> >>     <mailto:augusto at di.unipi.it>>:
>> >>
>> >>         The Closer secretariat confirms the availability of the same
>> >> room used
>> >>         for the special session until 19:00, so that we have one
>> >> additional
>> >>         hour for an OGF-labelled session. This way we facilitate the
>> >>         attendance of people interested though not directly involved in
>> >> OCCI.
>> >>         I'd concentrate in this time slot the discussions and briefs
>> >> that are
>> >>         not too technical, and that give a perspective of OCCI
>> >> activity. We
>> >>         can arrange a further (or even preliminary) meeting to discuss
>> >> more
>> >>         technical issues: I guess we have plenty of places where to
>> >> meet, and
>> >>         in case I'll ask for further availability to Closer.
>> >>
>> >>         As for financial issues, the secretariat pointed out that the
>> >>         participants need to register to the main conference. No words
>> >> about a
>> >>         financial participation of OGF. I asked if this was
>> >> appropriate, but
>> >>         the reply was that the participants need to register, nothing
>> >> else.
>> >>         So, if OGF wants to help the participants...
>> >>
>> >>         In the next week we will try to finalize the agenda using the
>> >> info
>> >>         provided by Jean, Boris, and by all those that have not yet
>> >> replied.
>> >>         I'd like to have a word about that from Andy and Thijs.
>> >>
>> >>         Augusto
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         2016-03-18 9:03 GMT+01:00 Jean Parpaillon
>> >> <jean.parpaillon at free.fr
>> >>         <mailto:jean.parpaillon at free.fr>>:
>> >>
>> >>             Hi,
>> >>             I'll be there.
>> >>             Some topics I can present something about below.
>> >>
>> >>             Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 20:51 +0100, Boris Parak a écrit :
>> >>>             On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>             <augusto at di.unipi.it <mailto:augusto at di.unipi.it>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             We have a two-hours session scheduled during the
>> >>>> conference: it
>> >>>>             is our
>> >>>>             session, and we can organize it in the way that better
>> >>>> fits our
>> >>>>             needs,
>> >>>>             provided that the four scheduled talks take place. For
>> >>>> instance,
>> >>>>             if we
>> >>>>             reduce the length of the presentations to 20 minutes
>> >>>> (instead of
>> >>>>             30), 40
>> >>>>             minutes are left for discussion, briefing or whatever.
>> >>>> Also, I
>> >>>>             am rather
>> >>>>             confident that Closer would be happy to allow the
>> >>>> utilization of
>> >>>>             the same
>> >>>>             room for an extended time slot (thought I'd need to check
>> >>>> and
>> >>>>             ask for this).
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             So there is really the opportunity to capitalize on this
>> >>>> Special
>> >>>>             Session: we
>> >>>>             just need a widely agreed definition and purpose for the
>> >>>>             additional activity
>> >>>>             that we want to carry out (agenda). It would be great if
>> >>>> this
>> >>>>             could help the
>> >>>>             delivery of the pending documents (OCCI 1.2 and
>> >>>> monitoring).
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             A formal announcement, according with Jean's suggestion,
>> >>>> should
>> >>>>             be based on
>> >>>>             a work plan: is there any plan of this sort?
>> >>>             We don't have anything specific yet, but I have a few
>> >>> suggestions. If
>> >>>             we can agree on some of them or perhaps add new ones, we
>> >>> should have
>> >>>             enough for an OCCI WG meeting.
>> >>>
>> >>>             1.) Review of OCCI 1.2 -- summary, late feedback, status
>> >>> of
>> >>>             documents,
>> >>>             discussion on changes which didn't get into OCCI 1.2
>> >>>             2.) Implementations of OCCI 1.2 -- short & long term
>> >>> plans,
>> >>>             forseeable
>> >>>             challenges, project roadmaps
>> >>
>> >>             1-2 slides on OCCIware current status and roadmap.
>> >>
>> >>>             3.) Extending OCCI's query interface -- in-depth
>> >>> discussion on query
>> >>>             interface extensions, multi-location set-ups, advertising
>> >>> endpoints,
>> >>>             etc.
>> >>>             4.) Towards OCCI 2.0 -- plans for the future, preliminary
>> >>>             discussions, roadmap
>> >>
>> >>             Some inputs on that:
>> >>             * attributes types refinment
>> >>             * possible links with OpenAPI / Swagger ?
>> >>
>> >>>             5.) Filtering in OCCI -- this discussion is long overdue
>> >>> :-)
>> >>>             6.) Transport protocol extensions -- perhaps AMQP, any
>> >>> other ideas?
>> >>>             7.) Rendering extensions -- for the next release, we
>> >>> should finally
>> >>>             get XML into the standard
>> >>
>> >>             I've initiated that, I can present status, evolutions, ...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>             Regards,
>> >>             Jean
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>             What do you think? Any other ideas? Something to
>> >>> remove/add?
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             Can we envision a further
>> >>>>             meeting to be formally announced during the Session?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             Augusto
>> >>>             Boris
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             2016-03-17 13:39 GMT+01:00 Sill, Alan <alan.sill at ttu.edu
>> >>>>             <mailto:alan.sill at ttu.edu>>:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Is there a need for the OCCI-WG or its members and
>> >>>>> participants
>> >>>>>             (or a
>> >>>>>             community group focused on OCCI implementations) to meet
>> >>>>> at
>> >>>>>             CLOSER 2016? OGF
>> >>>>>             could pay for meeting rooms and.or offer a small
>> >>>>> co-sponsorship
>> >>>>>             of the
>> >>>>>             conference to cover the reasonable costs of such a
>> >>>>> meeting if so.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             We don’t have a lot of money for such things and try to
>> >>>>> spend it
>> >>>>>             carefully, but meetings of OGF groups that are well
>> >>>>> attended at
>> >>>>>             topical
>> >>>>>             conference is one way that we try to use it and is
>> >>>>> possible
>> >>>>>             under special
>> >>>>>             circumstances.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Given the pending release of OCCI 1.2, I think that a
>> >>>>> meeting
>> >>>>>             on OCCI 1.2
>> >>>>>             implementations would be well in scope and is something
>> >>>>> that we can
>> >>>>>             consider.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Alan
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             On Mar 17, 2016, at 4:33 AM, Jean Parpaillon
>> >>>>>             <jean.parpaillon at free.fr
>> >>>>> <mailto:jean.parpaillon at free.fr>>
>> >>>>>             wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Dear all,
>> >>>>>             Thank you Augusto for organizing this session.
>> >>>>>             I would propose an official OCCI discussion to be
>> >>>>> announced
>> >>>>>             during this
>> >>>>>             session. I have no doubt such discussion will appear
>> >>>>> informally
>> >>>>>             during the
>> >>>>>             conference but for funding/administrative purpose, it
>> >>>>> would
>> >>>>>             greatly help to
>> >>>>>             have it officially announced, and maybe let some people
>> >>>>> join
>> >>>>>             who could not
>> >>>>>             otherwise.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Cheers,
>> >>>>>             Jean
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 10:15 +0100, Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>> a écrit :
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Dear members of the occi-wg maillist,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             this is to finalize the details about the Special
>> >>>>> Session about
>> >>>>>             OCCI at
>> >>>>>             CLOSER 2016, to be held in Rome (Italy), 23-25 April.
>> >>>>> The
>> >>>>>             Program Committee
>> >>>>>             selected 4 papers out of 6 that were submitted, and the
>> >>>>> authors
>> >>>>>             will present
>> >>>>>             their work on the second day of the Conference. The
>> >>>>> exact time
>> >>>>>             of the
>> >>>>>             presentations is still to be finalized.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             The selected papers are the following:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Evolution of The Open Cloud Computing Interface, by
>> >>>>> Boris Parak
>> >>>>>             et al.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Easing Scientific Computing and Federated Management in
>> >>>>> the
>> >>>>>             Cloud with
>> >>>>>             OCCI, by Zdenek Šustr et al.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             SLAaaS: an OCCI compliant framework for cloud SLA
>> >>>>> provisioning and
>> >>>>>             violation detection, by G. Katsaros et al.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Beyond Nagios - Design of a cloud monitoring system
>> >>>>> (Augusto
>> >>>>>             Ciuffoletti)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             It is my hope that this event will extend the reach of
>> >>>>> the OCCI
>> >>>>>             principles
>> >>>>>             to new people, especially researchers. Those of you that
>> >>>>> are
>> >>>>>             going to
>> >>>>>             participate to CLOSER are warmly invited to participate
>> >>>>> to the
>> >>>>>             event to get
>> >>>>>             in touch and reinforce a network.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             2016-01-18 11:49 GMT+01:00 Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>>             <augusto at di.unipi.it <mailto:augusto at di.unipi.it>>:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Hi all,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             this is a reminder about the special session entitled
>> >>>>>             "Experiences with
>> >>>>>             OCCI" that we want to schedule during Closer 2016 (Rome,
>> >>>>> April
>> >>>>>             23-25 2016).
>> >>>>>             The deadline for paper submission expires on February
>> >>>>> 10. If
>> >>>>>             you want to
>> >>>>>             report and discuss about an adoption, or propose a new
>> >>>>>             application, you
>> >>>>>             still have more than three weeks to put it on paper and
>> >>>>> send to us.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             All relevant infos are now on Closer site in a dedicated
>> >>>>> page,
>> >>>>>             or in our
>> >>>>>             flier.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Thank you
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Augusto
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             2015-12-10 16:45 GMT+01:00 Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>>             <augusto at di.unipi.it <mailto:augusto at di.unipi.it>>:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Dear all,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             there will be a special session dedicated to OCCI during
>> >>>>> the
>> >>>>>             "Closer 2016"
>> >>>>>             conference that will take place in Rome, near to the end
>> >>>>> of
>> >>>>>             April. The
>> >>>>>             session is intended to gather results and proposals
>> >>>>> about the
>> >>>>>             Open Cloud
>> >>>>>             Computing Interface: adoption stories are specifically
>> >>>>>             appreciated, but also
>> >>>>>             proposals for extensions, new applications and tools.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             The deadline for submission is on February, and you find
>> >>>>> a
>> >>>>>             flyer with the
>> >>>>>             schedule and further info at
>> >>>>> http://tinyurl.com/clocci16.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             Augusto
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             --
>> >>>>>             Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>>             Dipartimento di Informatica
>> >>>>>             Università di Pisa
>> >>>>>             56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>             --
>> >>>>>             Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>>             Dipartimento di Informatica
>> >>>>>             Università di Pisa
>> >>>>>             56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
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>> >>>>>             --
>> >>>>>             Jean Parpaillon
>> >>>>>             --
>> >>>>>             Director @ OW2 Consortium
>> >>>>>             OCCIware Strategic Orientation Committee Chairman
>> >>>>>             Research Engineer @ Inria
>> >>>>>             --
>> >>>>>             Phone: +33 6 30 10 92 86
>> >>>>> <tel:%2B33%206%2030%2010%2092%2086>
>> >>>>>             im: jean.parpaillon at gmail.com
>> >>>>> <mailto:jean.parpaillon at gmail.com>
>> >>>>>             skype: jean.parpaillon
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>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>             --
>> >>>>             Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>>>             Dipartimento di Informatica
>> >>>>             Università di Pisa
>> >>>>             56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>> >>>>
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>> >>             --
>> >>             Jean Parpaillon
>> >>             --
>> >>             Director @ OW2 Consortium
>> >>             OCCIware Strategic Orientation Committee Chairman
>> >>             Research Engineer @ Inria
>> >>             --
>> >>             Phone: +33 6 30 10 92 86
>> >> <tel:%2B33%206%2030%2010%2092%2086>
>> >>             im: jean.parpaillon at gmail.com
>> >> <mailto:jean.parpaillon at gmail.com>
>> >>             skype: jean.parpaillon
>> >>             linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanparpaillon/en
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         --
>> >>         Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>         Dipartimento di Informatica
>> >>         Università di Pisa
>> >>         56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     --
>> >>     Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> >>     Dipartimento di Informatica
>> >>     Università di Pisa
>> >>     56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Università di Pisa
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