Dear OGF colleagues, The NIST Cloud Standards Roadmap group, one of several subgroups of the NIST cloud computing effort, is restarting as of this Thursday. The goal is to move to a new phase emphasizing community-developed priority action plans ("PAPs") to set future directions for this effort. The agenda for the next meeting is described below. Also included are instructions on how to join the associated e-mail list and add topics to the agenda. In addition to this group, there are several others that might be of interest to the OGF community. In particular, there is an effort that meets Fridays, late in the day (unfortunately for our European colleagues) that is focused on federated infrastructure considerations for clouds, that has requested specific input from the grid community regarding its past and current efforts in federated distributed computing infrastructures. If you are interested in that group also, please let me know or look up the information on the NIST TWiki under the Reference Architecture group on it or on any other associated groups of interest. For now, I'd like to call your attention to the Standards Roadmap group and invite community participation and input. My own role as a participant in some of these work groups has made me very aware of the value of community participation and input in roadmap efforts of this type worldwide, and I would like to invite your participation also. The NIST TWiki that describes their efforts to date is available online at http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/ This site also contains notes and minutes of previous meetings, for your reference. I would especially appreciate involvement from the community in the standards roadmap, standards testing (SAJACC) and reference architecture groups; participation in the security, business use cases and other NIST groups might also be of interest to you or your organization. There are equivalent roadmapping efforts going on throughout the world that are of equal interest; if you know of any that are open to OGF community input, I'm sure we would all appreciate knowing details regarding how to contribute. Of course, these and our own community's response to these challenges will be discussed in detail at various sessions of the upcoming OGF 34 conference, registration for which is already open at http://ogf.org/OGF34/registration.php and the call for session proposals is still open at http://ogf.org/OGF34/cfp.php Yours, Alan Sill VP of Standards, OGF Begin forwarded message:

From: "Sokol, Annie W." <annie.sokol@nist.gov> Date: January 23, 2012 6:24:14 PM CST To: CC_STANDARDS <CC_STANDARDS@nist.gov> Subject: Re: [cc_standards] NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap Working Group (CCSRWG) - conference call Reply-To: "cc_standards@nist.gov" <cc_standards@nist.gov>

January 23, 2012

Dear All:

Thank you very much for your interest and participation in the past. We will continue to look forward to our collaboration in 2012. Attached with this email are the draft agenda and CCSRWG members. The draft agenda includes details on how to join in the teleconference.

If you have a topic that you think it would be beneficial to be added to the discussion, please email me before noon ET, Wednesday, January 25, 2012. If you want to unsubscribe to the mailing list, please email annie.sokol@nist.gov with the subject heading, "Unsubscribe".

I look forward to our conference call on Thursday, January 26, 2012.

Regards, Annie Sokol _______________________________________________ cc_standards mailing list cc_standards@nist.gov To unsubscribe, email the word "unsubscribe" in the title or message body to the address cc_standards-request@nist.gov