Dear OGF members and participants, The US National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of forming three new working groups on various aspects of clod technology, including community federated clouds. Please consider joining one or more of these working groups. Note that it is not required to be based in the US to join and contribute to these working groups. Thanks and best regards, Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF Begin forwarded message: From: "Sokol, Annie W." <annie.sokol@nist.gov<mailto:annie.sokol@nist.gov>> Date: June 18, 2014 at 6:29:26 PM EDT To: CC_STANDARDS <CC_STANDARDS@nist.gov<mailto:CC_STANDARDS@nist.gov>> Subject: [cc_standards] Announcement - NIST Cloud Computing: Formation of new Working Groups Reply-To: <cc_standards@nist.gov<mailto:cc_standards@nist.gov>> Announcement Formation of Three new NIST Cloud Computing Working Groups: Cloud Services, Federated Community Cloud and Interoperability & Portability. Joint telecon kickoff session on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. EDT Three public working groups are being formed to address requirements laid out in the USG Cloud Computing Standards and Technology Roadmap. The Cloud Service PWG will perform a study of Cloud Services and methodologies to determine their characteristics and properties to address Requirement 4 - Clearly and consistently categorized cloud services. The Federated Community Cloud PWG will develop a framework to support seamless implementations of disparate community cloud environments that will address Requirement 5 - Frameworks to support seamless implementation of federated community cloud environments. The Interoperability & Portability for Cloud Computing PWG will identify the issues and types of interoperability and portability needed for cloud computing systems, the relationships and interactions between interoperability and portability; and contexts where interoperability and portability are relevant in cloud computing. The leaders for the PWGs will host a joint telecon kickoff session on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. EDT to discuss the desired outcomes of the groups, the roles and responsibilities of the members, meeting schedules and deliverable dates. The phone number is: USA (toll free) – 877-951-7311 International – See attached list for numbers Passcode: 534 2115 If you have any questions, please email me. Thank you. Regards, Annie W. Sokol DFO, ISPAB IT Specialist, Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Commerce 301-975-2006 (Voice)