Condensed summary of OGF standards and recent activities in cloud computing, presented at the CloudScape V conference held Feb. 27-28 2013 in Brussels, Belgium

1. Open Grid Forum:
Birds-eye view of OGF Standards
Relevant to Cloud Computing
Alan Sill
Vice President of Standards
Cloudscape V
Feb. 28, 2013; Brussels, Belgium
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2. About the Open Grid Forum:
Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a leading global standards
development organization operating in the areas of cloud,
grid 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 actively engages partners and participants throughout
the international arena through an open forum with open
processes to champion architectural blueprints related to
cloud and grid computing.
The resulting specifications and standards enable
pervasive adoption of advanced distributed computing
techniques for business and research worldwide.
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3. OGF Standards
• OGF has an extensive set of applicable standards related to
federated community grid and cloud computing:
- Federated Identity Management (FedSec-CG)
- Managing the Trust Eco-System (CA operations, AuthN tools)
- Virtual Organizations (VOMS) and related authorization tools
- Job Submission and Workflow Management (JSDL, BES, HPC Profile)
- Network Management (NSI, NML, NMC, NM)
- Secure, fast multi--party data transfer (GridFTP, SRM)
- Data Format Description Language (DFDL) << incredibly important!
- Service Agreements (WS-Agreement, WS-Agreement Negotiation)
- Cloud Computing interfaces (OCCI family of specifications)
- Distributed resource management (DRMAA, SAGA, etc.)
- Firewall Traversal (FiTP); Usage Accounting (UR, GLUE)
- Others under development through ISOD-RG, DCIFed-WG, etc.
• Working to gather this information to form an organized
description of OGF work - an OGF “Cloud Portfolio”.
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4. OGF Cooperative Agreements
In Place as of Feb. 2013
OGF and ETSI: OGF and SIENA, NIST, GICTF, Canada
Cooperative MoU in place; contributing Cloud, etc.:
to ETSI CSC effort. Co-host Cloud Contribute actively to to ongoing global
Plugfest series (cooperative with SNIA). standards roadmapping efforts.
OGF and TM Forum: OGF and DMTF:
Memorandum of Understanding in Joint work register on OCCI and CIMI
place; ongoing cross-SDO document with DMTF Cloud Management WG.
on End-to-End Management of Cloud
Service Agreements, including SLAs, in OGF and ISO; OGF and ITU-T:
progress. OGF has a formal liaisons with ISO/
OGF and CSA: IEC JTC1 SC38 on Cloud Computing
Cooperative agreement between OGF and with ITU-T JCA Cloud.
and CSA in place. OGF and SNIA (CDMI):
OGF and IEEE: Cooperative agreement w/SNIA Cloud
OGF co-sponsored IEEE CloudCom on CDMI and has held 7 jointly hosted
2011 (Athens) and Cloudcom 2012 Cloud Standards Plugfests so far
(Taipei); open to other engagements. (cooperative now with ETSI).
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5. Cloud Plugfest Developer Series:
Developer-oriented
in-person standards
and software testing
Co-sponsored by
OGF, SNIA and ETSI
7 events held so far!
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6. How to find out more:
• OGF web site: http://www.ogf.org
• Cloud Plugfest web site: http://www.cloudplugfest.org
• Send e-mail to standards@ogf.org
• Attend an OGF event!
- OGF 37: Mar. 11-13 2013, Charlottesville, Virginia USA
- OGF 38: Networking events at TNC 2013 June 3-6; other
working groups meet at XSEDE 2013 conference July 22-25.
- OGF 39: To be co-located with EGI Technical Forum Fall
2013
• Participate in Cloud Plugfests: Multiple events in 2013
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