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Merry Christmas; Stocking stuffer: Fun with URI Templates and the Facebook Graph API
by Sill, Alan 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

Dear OCCI WG members, I think this has been a consequential year for OCCI in the field, and I'm very proud of and grateful for the work you have individually and collectively done. We've come a long way from the first efforts of the group back in 2009 and the tremendous acceleration over the last 2-3 years that led to the publication of the first complete OCCI specs in early 2011. As a minor Christmas present, I thought you might be interested in the following link with reference to damnhandy and RFC6570. I'd be interested in your opinions and look forward to learning more from you and to contributing in whatever minor way that I and others in OGF can to your continued success in revising and updating the specs as needed, extending them to new worlds including monitoring, the Internet of Things and other application areas if possible, and to further implementation work and whatever the future brings us. I hope we can also continue to understand OCCI and its place in the surrounding cloud standards landscape. Take care and have a great 2013. Topic: URI Templates implemented via damnhandy Link: http://damnhandy.com/2012/05/03/fun-with-uri-templates-and-the-facebook-gra… Alan

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Cloud Interoperability special session at CLOSER 2012
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Dear all, during next CLOSER conference there will be a special session dedicated to Cloud Interoperability: the topic is rapidly gaining momentum, and I considered as appropriate to find a place where to gather results and proposals, to have a snapshot of what's happening on the field. The members of this working group have an established interest and competence in the field, not restricted to the OCCI initiative. So I ask you some help for reviewing papers: if you are willing to spend some time evaluating the work of your colleagues, please let me know. Also pass the word to those that you think might volunteer for this fundamental contribution. This is also a call for papers: it would be desirable that the many groups and individuals that participate in the task of cloud interoperability find the time and resources to contribute to the event with a paper reporting their results. You find the details about the CLOSER conference at http://closer.scitevents.org/, and infos about the Cloud Interoperability session are at http://closer.scitevents.org/CI.aspx. The conference will be held in Aachen (Germany) 8-10 May, and the firm deadline for papers submission is *March 1st*. Thank you for your attention -- Augusto Ciuffoletti Dipartimento di Informatica Università di Pisa 56100 - Pisa (Italy)

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Fwd: volunteer on cloud monitoring
by Sill, Alan 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Dear ADs and OCCI-WG members, Any thoughts on the best place for someone interested in cloud monitoring to contribute? Alan Begin forwarded message: Dear Alan, I'm quite new of OGF and this is because I'm writing to you and I'm not using the mailing list. After the following message, I have seen many other messages related to standardization in Cloud environment. Based on my specific area of expertise related to monitoring and measurement, I'd like to contribute with some (standard) advices regarding names and rules in the field of cloud monitoring (said in a very brief way...). Therefore, if you think - I'm in the right place - it is useful please, could you give some hints on how to contribute? Thanks in advance for your time regards antonio ------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio Pescape' Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica University of Napoli ''Federico II'' Via Claudio, 21 - 80125, Napoli (Italy) [Room n. 3.10] tel. +39 081 7683856 - fax +39 081 7683816 e-mail : pescape(a)unina.it<mailto:pescape@unina.it> (or pescape(a)ieee.org<mailto:pescape@ieee.org>)Personal web-page: http://wpage.unina.it/pescapeTeaching web-site (in Italian): http://www.docenti.unina.it/antonio.pescape

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Status of OCCI and OpenNebula
by Gregor von Laszewski 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

All: please could someone provide me with a status update on OCCI and OpenNebula distribution. We in FG are interested in finding more out about it (does it work for the newest version of OpenNebula, and so forth). Furthermore, we would appreciate any help from the community to discuss a community managed OpenNebula distribution on FG that supports OCCI. We have in FG an internal OpenNebula cloud deployed, that is however not accessible to the public as it is strictly used for some internal services we have. The main reason it is private is manpower. Thus we thought we could use OpenNebula to identify if it is possible to identify if users can set up their on managed clouds. The idea came based on an experiment that we ran on Openstack Essex, where we for example developed a one line command so that a novice user could set up an entire virtual cluster with a couple of options such as a label and the number of worker nodes. This did set up one or more slurm clusters each with its own virtual worker nodes. Now we started thinking further. What if a user has a command such as fg-cloud-seeding -label gregorsCloud -IaaS OpenNebula -workers 12 This would than set up my private open nebula distribution on FG. Now if i add anther parameter that determines accessibility of the cloud I even could make it a public cloud. Recently we developed a new tool that allows us more easily to "redistribute" resources to different clouds and it may be the right time to look into how to best set up a "public" OpenNebula cloud with what I term cloud-shifting e.g. resources can be moved on demand into a particular cloud IaaS framework. This allows us for example to move resources from a batch queuing system to Eucalyptus, to OpenStack, naturally we are interested to do the same with OpenNebula as this seems to be a IaaS framework the OCCI community is often referring to. Any thoughts? What are the commands in OpenNebula that allow us to register and unregister a node from the cloud in open nebula? If we know these commands, we could add them to our tools and start thinking about what needs to be done to integrate OpenNebula. Furthermore, we are removing the dependency of our tools that we developed on the need for XCAT and Moab. This means one could deploy such tools also elsewhere. We work steadily towards this goal but probably need some more time, and than gradually improve its functionality and capability. Thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks Gregor

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Status on OCCI - Openstack Folsom
by Gregor von Laszewski 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

All: please could someone provide me with a status update on OCCI and Openstack Folsom distribution. We in FG are interested in pushing our next release out to the users, but are uncertain about the current status of the integration with Openstack. Thanks Gregor

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Re: [occi-wg] Mindmap with notes on F2F
by Andy Edmonds 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Also here are pictures of the whiteboard used with detail on the monitoring discussions https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kg8omrht0byosnw/yPrX_iGm6J Andy Andy Edmonds Æ Senior Researcher Institute of Information Technology Zürich University of Applied Sciences http://www.cloudcomp.ch, @dizz On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Metsch, ThijsX <thijsx.metsch(a)intel.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Excuses for the long delay – and even now I wasn’t able to write down some > notes on the F2F mtg. Excuses for this – till I find time: attached is the > mind map I used to take notes. > > Cheers, > > -Thijs > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) > Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland > Registered Number: E902934 > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution > by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. >

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Mindmap with notes on F2F
by Metsch, ThijsX 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Hi, Excuses for the long delay - and even now I wasn't able to write down some notes on the F2F mtg. Excuses for this - till I find time: attached is the mind map I used to take notes. Cheers, -Thijs ------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland Registered Number: E902934 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.

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Fwd: CLOUD Plugfest poster
by Sill, Alan 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Reminder to please send any comments on the poster to our ETSI friends. Alan Begin forwarded message: From: Aurélie Sfez <Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org>> Date: November 29, 2012, 10:36:59 AM GMT+01:00 To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>> Subject: RE: CLOUD Plugfest poster Dear Alan, Since we wanted to have the poster printed out for the next CLOUD Workshop that starts next Tuesday, 4th December, we will need to finalize it by today, so please make sure that if your colleagues have any comments to send them to me today at 12:00 GMT at the latest. Many thanks in advance for your consideration, Aurélie -----Original Message----- From: Sill, Alan [mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu] Sent: 28 November 2012 16:07 To: Aurélie Sfez Subject: Re: CLOUD Plugfest poster Aurélie, Looks wonderful! I'll pass it by other members in our group for comment. Alan On Nov 28, 2012, at 3:03 PM, "Aurélie Sfez" <Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org>> wrote: Dear Sill, Please find attached the poster we are going to print out. Please let me know if it is also fine for you. Kind regards, Aurélie -----Original Message----- From: Sill, Alan [mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu] Sent: 23 November 2012 20:18 To: Aurélie Sfez Cc: Sill, Alan; Silvia Almagia Subject: Re: CLOUD Plugfest poster Hi Aurélie, Yes. Attached is a zip file from which you can select the most appropriate one. Thanks, Alan On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Aurélie Sfez <Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org>> wrote: Dear Alan, We would like to create a Cloud Plugfest generic poster and for that we would like to ask you if you agree that the OGF logo appears on it as one of the main partners. If yes, could you provide us with a high quality OGF logo? Many thanks in advance, Kind regards, Aurélie Sfez PlugtestsT Event Coordinator Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org> Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 43 45 Mob: +33 (0)6 81 49 69 26 <CLOUD_Plugfest_Poster_A2.pdf>

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Re: [occi-wg] OCCI-Monitoring paper
by Augusto Ciuffoletti 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Paul, my position regarding the publication of metrics (as well as for monitoring techniques) is that there are many, and more are going to be introduced in the future. I consider as a mistake to freze them inside a document for basic interoperability. Instead, the basic document must specifiy where and how the specific technique can be plugged in. The specific technique (in your case, push of monitoring results) can later be specified in another document: the basic remains valid while the more specific has room to evolve. Think for instance to the RTP protocol: one basic protocol, and many "profiles". The RTP protocol is still there, while multimedia formats have gone through a fast evolution. If the RTP had included the MPEG protocol, it should have been updated frequently... In the specific case of the OCCI monitoring, there is a "Publisher" entity that is the empty container for the specification of the publishing technique: there you can include the attributes that describe your specific technique as a Mixin. Of course, OCCI may later decide to publish a document to specify what are the conformant attributes for the pushing technique: would you like to write it? In attachment there are the slides of the seminar given at Zurich. I am currently elaborating a new draft, after a profitable discussion in Zurich, trying to simplify and improve consistency. I hope to release it by mid-december. I'd like to take this opportunity to announce you that in May there will be a Special Issue on Cloud Interoperability during the Closer conference in Aachen (deadline March 1st). More info: http://closer.scitevents.org/SpecialSessions.aspx Augusto 2012/11/28 Paul Christ <paul_christ(a)t-online.de> > ** > Thank you, very much and sorry, Augusto, for the delay. > > I was specifically interested in 'push - issues' - which are not > (yet) dealt with in your paper if my understanding is right. > > Looking at papers of your colleagues (Sam Johnston, Thijs Metsch, Andrew > Edmonds, Alexis Richardson etc.) from 2009 and recently in IEEE > Internet Computing July/August 2012 (Vol. 16, No. 4) pp. 15-25 "Toward > an Open Cloud Standard" > "the OCCI working group is currently investigating asynchronous behaviors > associated with service offerings. ..."; > in the following also the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is > mentioned. > > Was this on the agenda of your meeeting (last?) week? > Unfortunately, the link http://tinyurl.com/1311-occi-ciuffoletti-pdf was > not accessible for me. > In summary I (still) have problems to envision a monitoring > infrastructure which includes both pull and push elements in an OCCI > context . > > I will try to follow (and possibly comment on) your work and would be > gratefull for any further information. > > Yours > > Paul > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *Von:* augusto.ciuffoletti(a)gmail.com [mailto: > augusto.ciuffoletti(a)gmail.com] *Im Auftrag von *Augusto Ciuffoletti > *Gesendet:* Montag, 8. Oktober 2012 10:11 > *An:* paul_christ(a)t-online.de > *Betreff:* Fwd: OCCI-Monitoring paper > > Hi Paul, > > I forward you the mail I sent to the group a couple of weeks ago, with the > document in attachment. Feel free to contact me if you need so. I do not > plan any advancement on the topic during next weeks, so you have plenty of > time... > > Augusto > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto(a)di.unipi.it> > Date: 2012/9/20 > Subject: OCCI-Monitoring paper > To: "occi-wg(a)ogf.org" <occi-wg(a)ogf.org> > Cc: "Metsch, ThijsX" <thijsx.metsch(a)intel.com> > > > Hi all, > > enclosed you find the 7 pages paper about OCCI-Monitoring. > > While working at the OCCI-SLA/Monitoring draft, I realized that the whole > issue was too much for a single document. The reason to modularize it is > the same as for modularizing software: in a word, monolithic is bad. > > So I tried to describe monitoring in OCCI terms: there is a section that > explains how this model interacts with the SLA, and with infrastructure > resources, and the interface between them is sufficiently small to claim > that the modularization was successful. > > My suggestion for managing the collaboration on this paper (whose source > is in LaTeX, but that I send you as a pdf) is by email and annotations: > there are many free tools that enable to annotate a pdf. I suggest > "xournal" or "okular", that are supported by many platforms. You can > annotate and send me the file that contains the annotations (.xoj for > xournal). If you send your annotations to the list others --- using the > appropriate tool --- can see your annotations. There are LaTeX > collaboration platforms, but I think they are not useful at this stage. > > Augusto > > 2012/9/18 Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto(a)di.unipi.it> > >> Before the end of this week I'll submit to the maillist a paper about >> SLA/monitoring. I considered that the whole SLA+monitoring was too much for >> a single document, and I concentrated on the monitoring part: the >> connection with SLA is explicit, but the paper covers a generic monitoring >> infrastructure, not specific for SLA. So the paper is not syntactically >> derived from the old one, but it is aligned with it and should hopefully >> give a sound basis for discussion. >> >> Further, I tried to adhere to the revision of the "core" document that >> circulated in the maillist. >> >> Bye >> >> Augusto >> >> 2012/9/18 Metsch, ThijsX <thijsx.metsch(a)intel.com> >> >>> Hi all,**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> There will be no call today as many of us are double and or tripple >>> booked today.**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> Next week we’ll pick up the calls again too hopefully finalize the JSON >>> and SLA/Monitoring discussions.**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> Cheers,**** >>> >>> **** >>> >>> -Thijs**** >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) >>> Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland >>> Registered Number: E902934 >>> >>> This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for >>> the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution >>> by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended >>> recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> occi-wg mailing list >>> occi-wg(a)ogf.org >>> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Augusto Ciuffoletti >> Dipartimento di Informatica >> Università di Pisa >> 56100 - Pisa (Italy) >> > > > > -- > Augusto Ciuffoletti > Dipartimento di Informatica > Università di Pisa > 56100 - Pisa (Italy) > > > > -- > 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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Fwd: CLOUD Plugfest poster
by Sill, Alan 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

FYI, comments welcome. Alan Begin forwarded message: From: "Aurélie Sfez" <Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org>> To: "Sill, Alan" <alan.sill(a)ttu.edu<mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu>> Cc: "Silvia Almagia" <Silvia.Almagia(a)etsi.org<mailto:Silvia.Almagia@etsi.org>> Subject: RE: CLOUD Plugfest poster Dear Sill, Please find attached the poster we are going to print out. Please let me know if it is also fine for you. Kind regards, Aurélie -----Original Message----- From: Sill, Alan [mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu] Sent: 23 November 2012 20:18 To: Aurélie Sfez Cc: Sill, Alan; Silvia Almagia Subject: Re: CLOUD Plugfest poster Hi Aurélie, Yes. Attached is a zip file from which you can select the most appropriate one. Thanks, Alan On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Aurélie Sfez <Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org>> wrote: Dear Alan, We would like to create a Cloud Plugfest generic poster and for that we would like to ask you if you agree that the OGF logo appears on it as one of the main partners. If yes, could you provide us with a high quality OGF logo? Many thanks in advance, Kind regards, Aurélie Sfez PlugtestsT Event Coordinator Aurelie.Sfez(a)etsi.org<mailto:Aurelie.Sfez@etsi.org> Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 43 45 Mob: +33 (0)6 81 49 69 26

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