Dear OGF and related colleagues, For those of you who may wish to participate in review of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, please note that comments are due by December 2, 2011 on the current, nearly final version. Information on the roadmap Volumes I and II is below. Please use the comment template as in the indicated link to provide your comments. This is a valuable and important part of community review of these documents, to which we have provided significant input as they have been developed over the past year to 18 months. Review and comment are expected and invited from both US-based and non- US participants on an open basis.While the primary emphasis of this effort is on understanding, categorizing and providing a proper description of cloud computing for the US Federal government, the NIST definitions and categorizations have already been picked up by many other organizations and countries, and are of interest on a wider basis. In the US, the primary emphasis on understanding of cloud computing for scientific settings is being carried out with the help of the US National IT R&D Large Scale Networking group through its Middleware and Grid Infrastructure Coordination (MAGIC) group. We have had many positive interactions with the MAGIC effort within OGF, and have run two successful workshops on cloud and grid related topics that you may want to look at in preparing your responses. Links to these workshops are as follows: 2011 Workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grids: http://www.ogf.org/HPACG 2011 Workshop on Science Agency Uses of Clouds and Grids: http://www.ogf/org/SAUCG Further ideas for related workshops and events are solicited. Meanwhile, your input to the US NIST Technology Roadmap is recruited and requested by the deadline of Dec. 2, 2011. Please feel free to contact me or the above-mentioned groups directly if you have other related questions or input. 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: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ==================================================================== Begin forwarded message:

Please note that “Written comments for Volume I and Volume II of SP 500-293 must be received on or before 5:00 P.M. Eastern time on December 2, 2011. As the announcement was published through the US Government’s Federal Register, we have to adhere to the deadline, and any submission received after the deadline will not be accepted unless an extension is published in the Federal Register. You may either send your comments to: Robert Bohn, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 2000, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2000 or send electronic comments to:ccroadmap.comments@nist.gov . You are encouraged to use the comment template http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/upload/Comment-Template_SP500-293_Vol-1n2-2.do... to submit your comments. Twiki http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/Do... , Twiki / comment template http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/pub/CloudComputing/Documen...

DRAFT NIST Special Publication 500-293: US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap (Release 1.0) Volume I: High-Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption Volume II: Useful Information for Cloud Adopters (To appear) Working Draft of Volume III: Technical Considerations for USG Cloud Computing Deployment Decisions Volume III was initiated in parallel, but is logically dependent on the technical work contained in Volume II, and will necessarily be completed and presented as part of the roadmap special publication in a subsequent release. Thank you.

Regards, Annie Sokol