Dear All, This might be interesting for you to know that recently SNE group at UvA has published a technical report on the Generic Architecture for Cloud IaaS model, Release 1

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~demch/worksinprogress/sne2011-techreport-2011-0... This is a result of our ongoing research on Cloud computing with primarily focus on Cloud IaaS service model in the framework of a few European and national projects, first of all, GN3 JRA3 Composable Services, GEYSERS, and NOVI who are already contributing to ISOD-RG activity. The proposed architectural framework is primarily focused on Cloud IaaS design and consists of the 3 major components: * Composable Services Architecture (CSA) that intends to provide a conceptual and methodological framework for developing dynamically configurable virtualised infrastructure services; * Infrastructure Services Modeling Framework (ISMF) that provides a basis for the infrastructure resources virtualisation and management, including description, discovery, modeling, composition and monitoring; * Service Delivery Framework (SDF) that provides a basis for defining the whole composable services life cycle management and supporting infrastructure services. At current stage we are interested in comparing our architecture against other existing and being developed frameworks. In particular we already established cooperation with the current NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture development. We will be happy also to contribute this research to ISOD-RG as a basis for some discussions on defining infrastructure services, use cases, provisioning models and related issues. We will appreciate comments and contribution. Regards, Yuri Demchenko System and Network Engineering Group University of Amsterdam