On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Sill, Alan wrote:
After considerable prodding from Mark ;-) I have updated the entries for OGF and for the three current near-release OCCI documents in the table at http://cloud-standards.org
Here is what I put in. If you would like further details or changes, let me or Mark know, or ask for an account. I'll try to add explicit references once the current OCCI-WG documents make it through the OGF pipeline (hopefully soon - we are waiting for your document edits after the review period on the first two!).
Sorry, forgot to include it; here for convenience is the current text: Open Grid Forum (OGF) Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a leading standards development organization operating in the areas of grid, cloud and related forms of advanced distributed computing. The OGF community pursues these topics through an open process for development, creation and promotion of relevant specifications and use cases. OGF partners and participants throughout the international arena use these standards to champion architectural blueprints related to cloud and grid computing and the associated software development. This work enables the community to pursue the pervasive adoption of advanced distributed computing techniques for business and research worldwide. Organizations throughout the world use the resulting clouds and grids as production distributed architectures built on these features to collaborate in areas as diverse as scientific data processing, drug discovery, cancer research, financial risk analysis, visualization and product design. Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) Working Group The Open Cloud Computing Interface comprises a set of open community-led specifications delivered through the Open Grid Forum. OCCI is a Protocol and API for all kinds of Management tasks. OCCI was originally initiated to create a remote management API for IaaS model based Services, allowing for the development of interoperable tools for common tasks including deployment, autonomic scaling and monitoring. It has since evolved into a flexible API with a strong focus on integration, portability, interoperability and innovation while still offering a high degree of extensibility. The current release of the Open Cloud Computing Interface is suitable to serve many other models in addition to IaaS, including e.g. PaaS and SaaS. The current OCCI specification set consist of three documents, with others under preparation in the OGF standards pipeline. Future releases of OCCI may include additional rendering and extension specifications. The documents of the current OCCI specification suite are: Open Cloud Computing Interface Core Specification The Open Cloud Computing Interface is a boundary protocol and API that acts as a service front-end to a provider’s internal management framework. Service consumers can be both end-users and other system instances. OCCI is suitable for both cases. The key feature is that OCCI can be used as a management API for all kinds of resources while at the same time maintaining a high level of interoperability. Open Cloud Computing Interface Infrastructure Specification An OCCI implementation can model and implement an Infrastructure as a Service API offering by utilizing the OCCI Core Model. The OCCI Infrastructure specification contains the definition of the OCCI Infrastructure extension applicable for use in the IaaS domain. Such an API allows for the creation and management of typical resources associated with an IaaS service. These infrastructure types inherit the OCCI Core Model Resource base type and all of its attributes. Open Cloud Computing Interface HTTP Rendering Specification OCCI HTTP Rendering defines how to interact with the OCCI Core Model using the RESTful OCCI API. The document defines how the OCCI Core Model can be communicated and thus serialized using the HTTP protocol. Other OCCI-related Documents OGF and SNIA have collaborated on a Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing whitepaper. See also the page on this wiki on Open Cloud Computing Interface Terms and Diagrams.