Re: [egov-ms] INTERNATIONAL CLOUD SYMPOSIUM 2011 - FINAL REPORT

Hi John,

      

      It's unfortunate that cognizance was not evident

      of the largest ongoing global collaborative cloud

      activity and the implications of the work.

      

      For the past year, the ITU-T Focus Group on Cloud

      Computing has been meeting at multiple venues

      around the world and engaging just about every 

      every standards activity that exists.  The work has

      been focussed on 1) uncovering everything occurring

      "out there," and 2) deriving what appear to be common

      conceptualizations at both the meta and detailed

      technical and provisioning levels.

      

      The latest instantiations of their products are found

      in the output documents of the recent Seoul meeting,

      and consist of a very comprehensive set of documents:

      o ecosystem

      o functional requirements and reference architecture

      o infrastructure

      o security

      o benefits

      o standards bodies involved

      o resource management

      o summary

      

      The set is available at
      http://ifa.itu.int/t/fg/cloud/docs/1109-seo/out/

      

      A final meeting will be held in December in Geneva,

      followed by issuance of the final material.  I know of

      no activity on this scale and comprehensiveness related

      to cloud computing, and will likely shape the collaborative

      playbook going forward.  Of particular interest are what

      appear to be common models for instantiating  this

      new infrastructure which will be rapidly replacing

      both the PSTN and Internet.

      

      best,

      tony

    

    

    On 10/31/2011 5:56 AM, John Borras wrote:
    
      
      
      
      

        
The final report on our recent Cloud
          Symposium is now available at http://www.oasis-egov.org/node/47
          .  

        
 

        
This was a hugely successful event both for
          the eGov and IDTrust Member Sections and for OASIS as a
          whole.  We will be following up on the actions arising over
          the coming weeks but in the meantime if anybody has any
          observations or suggestions for new areas of work on this
          increasingly important area of activity please post a note to
          the me and the MS mailing list.

        
 

        
Regards

        
John Borras

        
 

        
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