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-We... 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@ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ====================================================================