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season greetings
by Thijs Metsch 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

Just to inform you that the next official OCCI concall will be in the first week of January 2011. We'll also send the HTTP rendering document to public comment by than. Till than I hope you have all some nice days off, happy holidays and talk to you in 2011! All the best, -Thijs

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Confcall in about 15...
by Edmonds, AndrewX 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Seems Thijs has got stuck in snow (I only hope he's got a hip flask of his favourite)... I'll open the bridge. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Reminder: concall in 2 hours
by Thijs Metsch 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Hi, I'll open the conference bridge in two hours for our weekly OCCI concall. You can join here: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Teleconferen… Talk to you soon, -Thijs

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OCCI core and infrastructure are now in public comment
by Thijs Metsch 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

All, I'm pleased to announce that the OCCI core and OCCI Infrastructure documents are now in public comment. Please share the link below widely, so we can get as much feedback as we need: http://ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment Thanks, -Thijs -- Thijs Metsch Senior Software Engineer Grid and Cloud Technology Platform Computing GmbH Europaring 60 D-40878 Ratingen http://www.platform.com

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NITRD talk and input for upcoming SDO panel at Telecom Cloud workshop
by Alan Sill 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

I'd like to call the attention of SCRM-WG and OCCI-WG participants to to a talk that I gave yesterday on OGF at the National Coordination Office NITRD MAGIC meeting yesterday to a group of US government program officers and representatives from various federal funding agencies. The purpose of this talk was to call OGF's activities to their attention and to make the case for further involvement from participants in the projects that they fund in the activities and working groups within OGF. http://www.hpcc.ttu.edu/asill/ogf/nitrd/MAGIC-Dec2010-OGF-Standards-Intro-W… This talk highlighted our joint work with other standards development organizations, our recent work on OCCI and cooperation with CDMI being developed by SNIA, as well as covering some of the background and motivation for OGF in general. Your comments and feedback would be appreciated. Also, next week Monday and Tuesday there is a Telecom Cloud Information Day and Workshop being sponsored by the Open management Group (OMG) that will feature talks on OCCI by Craig Lee as well as a large amount of material presented by other organizations. As part of that workshop, I have been invited to lead a panel on "Existing Cloud Standards Roadmaps, Related SDO Collaboration Work and Top Issues" that will draw on audience participation and feedback from other Telecom Cloud participants. It is to be followed by a session on "Strategy for Cloud Standards Collaboration Roadmap Development " to be led by Bob Marcus of Huawei. While I am familiar with US NIST, European SIENA, and several of the other cloud and grid project roadmapping efforts in Japan, South America, etc., as well as other private efforts, I think that a lot of the work being done by the SCRM and OCCI groups could usefully be highlighted in these sessions. I invite feedback either individually or collectively to these lists regarding points you would like to highlight, SDO collaboration of all types regardless of the level of formality, and proper methods for engagement by parties that may not have yet been part of your work in the activities being pursued in each of these OGF work groups. I am also interested in items and topics for outward engagement. Please let me know either privately or by postings to the appropriate work group lists your thoughts on any or all of the above. Thanks for all that each of you has done to promote our work within OGF to date, as well as on engagements with outside SDOs. Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics TTU Vice President of Standards Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Admin 233, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ====================================================================

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Whither OCCI and CDMI?
by Andy Edmonds 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

>From Mark and the CDMI guys. In regards to Question 1 (below): In the context of the core specification it would be now more correct to say "the OCCI Entity sub-type's instance ID" as opposed to "OCCI virtual machine ID". Andy OCCI folks, With a new OCCI version approaching finalization and CDMI about to go on to ISO standardization, I thought we should revisit the OCCI/CDMI integration as documented in CDMI and OCCI. * Question 1:* Is "OCCI virtual machine ID" the correct term we should be using? (If not, we can still "errata" CDMI to call out the correct term) * Question 2:* Looking through the latest OCCI spec, I did not see a reference to CDMI anywhere. Can we get a similar description as below pointing back to CDMI to close this loop? Thanks, -- mark

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Location in cloud APIs
by Edmonds, AndrewX 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi all, I had a conversation with Adrian from jClouds on Thursday regarding OCCI and jClouds. During the discussion, the important issue of location and the provisioning of services arose. Currently jClouds are investigating the enhancement of a Location API and would really appreciate input from us folks here in OCCI. If any of us OCCI peeps are interested, have a look at the mail thread here [1]. You can find more detail on the draft changes here [2]. What Adrian is proposing is certainly richer that what we had originally discussed in an OCCI context. Originally we had, what was then, a set of Location Kinds that could be applied to a service request (1 or more VMs). With a location Kind supplied with a provisioning request, the implementation would then deploy the service instance within the correct location. Currently, we now have an even richer mechanism, Mixins, that I believe could easily mirror the proposed draft modifications [2] to jClouds, with these Mixins, hence locations, being discoverable from the query interface. What do people think? What would you like to see in a Location API? Andy [1] http://groups.google.com/group/jclouds-dev/browse_thread/thread/3594bffb4743 028f [2] http://www.slideshare.net/jclouds/jclouds-powertools-london/31 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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No Confcall
by Edmonds, AndrewX 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I cannot open the confcall today so we'll postpone until next week. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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OCCI Core
by Ralf Nyren 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi again, The OCCI Core document is now ready for the (hopefully) last comment round. It has been much improved since in the last round. Thanks for all the comments. As with the infrastructure doc I must ask you to submit your comments tomorrow Thursday at the latest. If nothing critical shows up the OCCI Core document will also go into public comments phase on Friday. regards, Ralf

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OCCI Infrastructure
by Ralf Nyren 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi all, The OCCI Infrastructure document has received a major update now and your comments would be appreciated. Since we are on a tight schedule I must ask you to submit your comments by end of tomorrow Thursday at the very latest. If nothing critical shows up this document will go into public comment on Friday. regards, Ralf

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