Request for Study Period on Potential Stan-dard Issues for Cloud Computing

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 2 Interim Meeting,

Crete, Greece, October 2011

Sungjoon Lim, Korea Database Agency (KDB)

Dongwon Jeong, Kunsan Nat’l University (KNU)

WG2_N1604

The Need of Cloud Computing

• Online Computing by network– Everything is connected

• Service itself is more important– Make it possible everything “As-A-SERVICE”

• Ubiquitous Era– You can do in every device

What is Cloud Computing: Models

Source: Thoughts on Information Technology, Cloud Computing - http://itechthoughts.wordpress.com/category/cloud-computing/

Major Issues: Reality of Cloud Comput-ing

Source: blogs.znet.com

Major Issues: Standard Issues

• Security across Clouds• Moving applications between Cloud platforms• Describing resource/performance capabilities

and requirements• Orchestration and middleware tools for creating

composite applications across Clouds• Common representations (abstract, APIs, proto-

cols) for interfacing to Cloud resources• Metadata & data exchanges among Clouds, etc.

Major Issues: Lock-in problem

• Vendor(or Service provider) Lock-In prob-lem– since the applications may not be available

elsewhere, we cannot easily switch the provider.

• Worse: From some of the Web 2.0 Services like so-cial networks (e.g., Xing, LinkedIn, Facebook) we can’t retrieve your own data.

• Xing for example has a “mobile export” for data, but this works only for paying customers and only ex-ports address data.

Major Issues: Needs of Standardization

• Platform Service Dependency from Providers and Vendors

• Lock-in Problem on Cloud Data and Ser-vices

Cloud A Cloud B

Relevant Organizations/Groups

• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)• The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)• Open Grid Forum (OGF)

– Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) Working Group

• Object Management Group (OMG)• Open Cloud Consortium (OCC)• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

(OASIS)• Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)• Latino-american Institute for Quality Assurance (INLAC)• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38

– Study Group on Cloud Computing (SGCC)

Conclusions

• Request for a Study Period on identifying standard issues – to support metadata and data interoperability between clouds

• Tentative Schedule– 2011.11 ~ 2012.05

• Identifying standard issues and defining the role of SC 32/WG 2

– The 2012 Plenary Meeting and WG 2 Meeting• Discussion on standard items

– 2012.06 ~ 2012.11• Refining the standard items and additional discussions with SC 32/WG 2

and relevant standard groups

– The 2012 SC 32/WG 2 Interim Meeting• Discussion on the standard items refined• Submission of NWIP, If possible

QnA

• Thanks• Any questions?

References

• InfoWorld, “Cloud Computing Deep Dive,” Sep-tember 2009.

• Seungyun Lee, “Standardization Activities on Cloud Computing,” International Seminar on Smart IT and Global Standardization: Smarter life on green planet, August 2010.

• UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory, “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing”, February 10, 2009