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OCCI PaaS draft proposal
by Metsch, Thijs 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hi, As discussed in Oxford - here is a first proposal for using OCCI as app management in the PaaS space: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQmvVd9T9yMoS-9Vb3gBJ3N-OSNvgtzHWC8Di0V… Please ask for direct editing rights by pinging me. I'll add you to the contributors list then too. Cheers, -Thijs Intel GmbH Dornacher Strasse 1 85622 Feldkirchen/Muenchen, Deutschland Sitz der Gesellschaft: Feldkirchen bei Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian Lamprechter, Hannes Schwaderer, Douglas Lusk Registergericht: Muenchen HRB 47456 Ust.-IdNr./VAT Registration No.: DE129385895 Citibank Frankfurt a.M. (BLZ 502 109 00) 600119052

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document update
by Andre Merzky 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Dear OCCI-WG, please remember that the JSON Rendering document is in your court for iteration. It probably would make sense to close this one before people disappear into the summer breaks? :) See http://redmine.ogf.org/issues/96 for details. Best, Andre. -- It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered that my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the Universe. (Not even remotely.)

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OCCI (and/o or OCCI-DRMAA) invited talk request [Fwd: [wg-all] Call for Session Proposals: OGF 42 at CAC 2012, 8-12 Sep 2014 in London]
by Sill, Alan 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

FYI as below. Any takers? It would be nice to see an OCCI talk there, and perhaps the OCCI-DRMAA work could also be included. Alan Begin forwarded message: From: Soonwook Hwang <hwang(a)kisti.re.kr<mailto:hwang@kisti.re.kr>> Subject: Re: [wg-all] Call for Session Proposals: OGF 42 at CAC 2012, 8-12 Sep 2014 in London Date: July 25, 2014 at 7:43:59 AM PDT To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>> Cc: Yoonhee Kim <yulan(a)sookmyung.ac.kr<mailto:yulan@sookmyung.ac.kr>>, David Wallom <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk<mailto:david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk>>, salim hariri <hariri(a)ece.arizona.edu<mailto:hariri@ece.arizona.edu>>, "Masoud Sadjadi" <sadjadi(a)cs.fiu.edu<mailto:sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu>> Reply-To: <hwang(a)kisti.re.kr<mailto:hwang@kisti.re.kr>> Dear Alan, Many thanks to you for the circulation of the AMGCC'14 workshop event through the OGF mailing list. Like last year's workshop in Miami, we are planning for some invited talks to be included our workshop program. Dr. David Wallom, who is currently leading the EGI federated cloud activity and has agreed to have a keynote speech, will be talking about “Federation of cloud computing resources to create a uniform e-ionfrastructure for Research”. The OGF OCCI is one of key components for the construction of the federation of IaaS cloud for EGI. Since OGF is co-located there, It has just occurred to me that if you could help arrange an invited talk probably covering OGF OCCI activity for AMGCC'14. Of course, any other suggestion and proposal concerning an invited talk for the workshop will also be welcome. Best regards, Soonwook 2014-07-14 22:22 GMT+09:00 Sill, Alan <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>>: Open Grid Forum 42 at CAC 2014, London, UK: OGF will meet with all appropriate working groups at the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2014)<http://autonomic-conference.org/> to take place September 8-12, 2014 at Imperial College<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/southkensington> in London, UK. Registration for CAC 2014<https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1569519> includes and covers attendance at all OGF 42 co-located sessions. Other co-located conferences for this event include the 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2014)<http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/saso2014/> and the 14th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P’14)<http://www.p2p-conference.org/p2p14/>. In addition to the other activities at these conferences, OGF will host its own BOF and tutorial sessions, working group and community implementation group meetings on topics related to OGF technologies in a wide variety of areas in advanced distributed computing. OGF is co-sponsoring the 2nd International Workshop on Autonomic Management of high performance Grid and Cloud Computing (AMGCC’14)<http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/wiki/index.php/AMGCC14> co-located there, to take place on Friday, September 12, 2014, and note that the CAC 2014 conference also includes the 2014 International Workshop on Autonomic Cloud Cybersecurity (ACC '14)<http://sesar.di.unimi.it/ACC2014/> to take place Monday, September 8. Many OGF group sessions have already been planned, including meetings of the DRMAA, OCCI, JSDL, BES and GLUE working groups, several implementation community groups and a tutorial and demonstration for implementations of the DFDL standard. For details on how to request further OGF sessions at this meeting, see the Call for Session Proposals<http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42/call_for_session_proposa…>. For further information, visit the OGF 42 event information page at http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-42 Alan Sill, VP of Standards for the OGF Events team Open Grid Forum Open Forum | Open Standards http://www.ogf.org<http://www.ogf.org/> -- The wg-all mailing list is an umbrella list for all OGF mailing lists. If you are subscribed to any OGF mailing list, you will receive mails to wg-all. wg-all mailing list wg-all(a)ogf.org<mailto:wg-all@ogf.org> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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Re: [occi-wg] [DRMAA-WG] Fwd: [wg-all] Early notice re. session proposals for OGF 42 at CAC 2014 Sep. 8-12 in London
by Sill, Alan 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Thanks Daniel, Andre and Peter, OCCI-wg, what think you? Can you make it to London? This would seem a good opportunity to make progress. (We also have the OCCIware activities, separately proposed, which could also make use of a London OGF 42 venue meeting.) Let us know ASAP. Alan On Jun 24, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Daniel Gruber <dgruber(a)univa.com> wrote: > I also would like to come for one or two days especially in order > to discuss the last open issues we have about the DRMAA2 spec > (see redmine) and to continue with other language binding workings > which now becomes important. > > Cheers > > Daniel > > > Am 23.06.2014 um 12:56 schrieb Andre Merzky <andre(a)merzky.net>: > >> It would motivate me to come over if DRMAA / OCCI would meet there... >> >> Cheers, Andre. >> >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Peter Tröger <peter(a)troeger.eu> wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> OGF 42 is planned to take place in London in September. I think this would be be a nice opportunity to bring the DRMAA activities back in sync again. This relates especially to implementations, language bindings and the OCCI-DRMAA project. >>> >>> Who could imagine to be there ? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Peter. >>> >>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: >>> >>>> Von: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> >>>> Betreff: [wg-all] Early notice re. session proposals for OGF 42 at CAC 2014 Sep. 8-12 in London >>>> Datum: 18. Juni 2014 15:24:05 MESZ >>>> An: OGF Work Groups <wg-all(a)ogf.org> >>>> >>>> Dear OGF members and participants, >>>> >>>> As mentioned earlier, we are planning to hold OGF 42 split across two different related conferences in Europe and the UK in September, the first and main portion of which will be held during and as part of the Cloud and Autonomic Computing conference 8-12 Sep 2014 at Imperial College in London. (The second portion of this will be meetings of the networking groups, in particular the NSI-WG, at the NorduNet conference later in the month.) >>>> >>>> We do expect the majority of our active working groups will want to meet at the CAC conference. The location is convenient and easy to get to; the conference is located at a university that is willing to accommodate our requests for working group meeting space, and the conference is also co-located with other interesting events for our community. In particular, this would be an excellent venue at which to discuss our work within OGF on federated security and access models and tools, and related topics oriented towards building participation from the community. >>>> >>>> Prior to this, OGF 41 will be incorporated into XSEDE 2014 in the USA July, as we previously mentioned. It is our hope that following this event reasonably closely with another event convenient to our community members in Europe will help stimulate additional work and meetings of current and prospective new OGF groups. BOF sessions will be entertained and welcome as usual. >>>> >>>> We encourage you to think about new activities to take place at both of these events in the spirit of the OGF charter and mission, which is to be an open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing through open forums that build the community, explore trends, share best practices, document findings and consolidate these results into standards. We are committed to keeping OGF true to this mission as methods for accomplishing these goals evolve through natural technological advancement. >>>> >>>> In particular, the launch of the EGI Federated Cloud announced recently at the EGI Community Forum illustrates that the community that spawned OGF is still working to advance the forefront of applied distributed computing and to bring its efforts to bear fruitfully on problems of interest to our community. We encourage the organizers of the Federated Cloud and related community groups tackling problems of federated identity management, use of standards (including those from outside of OGF as well as those that we develop internally) as well as practical items of software and best practices, etc., to meet at OGF 42 and to take full advantage of the opportunities for extended group meetings including working sessions that this will provide. We also think this would be a great location for a meeting of the OCCI working group and related application groups that are being formed to exploit OGF work in this area. >>>> >>>> A formal call for session requests will be issued shortly. Meanwhile, please discuss this opportunity among your colleagues and consider forwarding any requests for special working group meetings, BOFs or other open sessions to us via your area directors or the GFSG, or directly to events(a)ogf.org or standards(a)ogf.org >>>> >>>> The link for the main conference for CAC 2014 is http://autonomic-conference.org >>>> >>>> Finally, let me mention that a nominating committee has recently been formed as a result of conversations at OGF 40 at Oxford, and will be recruiting nominations for specific positions in OGF shortly. Please be prepared to nominate suitable candidates for the positions that the NOMCOM has identified once it announces them; self-nominations are allowed. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Alan Sill >>>> VP of Standards, OGF >>>> -- >>>> The wg-all mailing list is an umbrella list for all >>>> OGF mailing lists. If you are subscribed to any OGF >>>> mailing list, you will receive mails to wg-all. >>>> >>>> wg-all mailing list >>>> wg-all(a)ogf.org >>>> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all >>> >>> -- >>> drmaa-wg mailing list >>> drmaa-wg(a)ogf.org >>> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/drmaa-wg >> >> >> >> -- >> It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered that my Universal >> Remote Control did not, in fact, control the Universe. (Not even >> remotely.) >> -- >> drmaa-wg mailing list >> drmaa-wg(a)ogf.org >> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/drmaa-wg > > -- > drmaa-wg mailing list > drmaa-wg(a)ogf.org > https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/drmaa-wg

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US govt GSA study group issues 1st draft of API standards
by Sill, Alan 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Dear OCCI folks, I thought you would like to see this as I think it represents good work. The US White House Presidential Innovation Fellows program has been sponsoring work to improve public access to government data via APIs. As part of this process, which is sponsored and run out of the US GSA (General Services Administration) in an open public process, there is a useful set of GitHub repositories and an associated information page: https://github.com/18f I have been increasingly impressed with the quality of volunteers in the 18F group and the work they have produced. They have recently produced a compact set of API standard recommendations to go along with this work: https://github.com/18F/api-standards These describe the user-faciing aspects of the implementation details of the API and make recommendations for maximum utility and reuse. The release is described in a blog entry at the following location and I think this is worthwhile reading. http://18fblog.tumblr.com/post/91868213233/hot-off-the-press-18fs-api-stand… The standards themselves are very compact and I think are quite sensible. I would like to encourage you to read them and suggest that you comment if you have any input; would also like to see if the ideas here have any impact on your thinking about OCCi API design and usage. Although OCCI is not just an API and is not only limited to data, there are some recommendations - such as use of https everywhere and support for CORS, which is a web API design element but could have significant influence on the design of user-oriented service control APIs through federation of multi-site controls - that I think it would be good for us to think about as work on things like OCCI evolves in OGF. Thanks, Alan

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Fwd: OCCI vs. AWS blog by Noah Slater - care to comment?
by Sill, Alan 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

FYI. We are among the most successful of the “new” cloud standards, in that we are seeing adoption and uptake, albeit at a slow rate but better than several others. What can we do to further promote, encourage and drive OCCI adoption? Alan Begin forwarded message: > From: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> > Subject: OCCI vs. AWS blog by Noah Slater - care to comment? > Date: July 2, 2014 at 4:54:39 PM CDT > To: David Wallom <david.wallom(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk>, Michel Drescher <michel.drescher(a)egi.eu> > Cc: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu> > > Thought you'd like to see the blog article at the following link: > > https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/open-cloud-interface > > Bottom line summary: > > "Though OCCI in particular has some adoption, the AWS API is still an industry leader and the de facto standard, and that position looks unlikely to undergo any radical change in the short term. Despite this, lessons from OCCI can be learned, and the AWS API increasingly contains features specific to AWS. If competition amongst cloud platforms such as AWS, GCE, and Azure increases in the future, the value that OCCI or other standardisation efforts provides could increase in proportion. > > P.S. Do you use OCCI in your daily work, or perhaps a competing standard such as CIMI? Are you able to compare them with AWS, the CloudStack native API, or another well known cloud API? If so, please share your insights in a comment below! We’d love to hear from you." > > Notre comment by Ignacio at the bottom - care to add your comments? > > Thanks, > Alan >

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