The OMG Cloud Working Group, formed in July 2018, is the successor to the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), started in 2011.
The OMG Cloud Working Group publishes vendor-neutral guidance on important considerations for cloud computing adoption – highlighting standards, opportunities for standardization, cloud customer requirements, and best practices to foster an ecosystem of open, standards-based cloud computing technologies.
The co-chairs of the Working Group are, as of March 2021:
Co-chair roles and responsibilities are less formal in an OMG Working Group than they are in a Special Interest Group or Task Force. There are no formal policies and procedures about the organization of a WG. However, it is our intent to periodically ask CWG members to formally elect the group's co-chairs.
As of March 2021, membership in the CWG is open, free, and not restricted to holders of an OMG membership. However, co-chairs must be from an OMG member company.
The CWG largely operates through work performed “off-line” by its members, such as the writing and editing of discussion papers. In addition, “information sessions” (status review and discussion of the CWG's roadmap) are held during regular OMG meetings, usually on Wednesday mornings, and are announced on the OMG meeting agenda. See omg.org/events for the dates and locations of the next meetings.
Below is a table of reports from prior longer meetings:
Year | Quarter | Link | Remarks |
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2022 | Q3 | Agenda | Expect minutes in October |
2022 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 22 Jun 2022 | |
2022 | Q1 | Agenda of March 23 meeting | |
2021 | Q4 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 07 Dec 2021 | Draft |
2021 | Q3 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 28 Sept 2021 | Draft |
2021 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 15 Jun 2021 | Draft |
2021 | Q1 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Mar 2021 | Google Docs draft |
2020 | Q4 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 9 Dec 2020 | |
2020 | Q3 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 16 Sep 2020 | |
2020 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Jun 2020 | |
2020 | Q1 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 25 Mar 2020 | Google Docs draft |
2019 | Q4 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 11 Dec 2019 in Long Beach | |
2019 | Q3 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Sep 2019 in Nashville | |
2019 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 18 June 2019 in Amsterdam |
The CSCC created 27 guides or papers during its existence. All of those are now classified as “OMG Discussion Papers,” although they are not being re-published with a new title or cover page at this time. The change in name and branding will occur as the papers are updated. With the new papers added by the OMG Cloud Working group since 2019, there are now 29 guides or papers, listed below.
The roadmap for the writing of new Discussion Papers or the updating of existing ones will be decided by the group as a whole during its meetings. The workflow for each paper will conclude with:
In general, the last two steps will take place during an in-person Task Force meeting during an OMG Technical Meeting week. In exceptional cases, this may be replaced by an e-mail vote if the Task Force chairs agree, to avoid delaying the paper.
We generally raise the possibility of updating an existing paper or guide when it is about three years old. Major reason to update a paper may be:
In addition, revisions should address the following objectives:
Title | Leaders | Kick-off | External Draft | Planned Vote |
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AI in the Cloud | Lisa Schenkewitz | Jan 2024 | Jun 2024 | Sep 2024 |
When new papers are released, they may supersede similar considerations previously included in some other papers, in which case those will need to be revised accordingly in due time.
The roadmap for the next cycles (reviewed at each meeting) currently includes:
Per OMG policies and procedures, there are now new types of deliverables that the CWG may undertake:
However, RFPs and RFCs can only be issued by a Technical Committee upon recommendation of a Task Force. The CWG will generally request such a recommendation from the Middleware and Related Services (MARS) Platform Task Force, but may from time to time go through another, more relevant Task Force.
Interested OMG and non-OMG participants are invited to join the CWG.
We have a mailing list, [email protected]. If you join the CWG, you will be added to the distribution. To ask to be added to the mailing list manually, or to unsubscribe, please click here, state your request in the message, and press Send.
In 2020, OMG mailing lists will become closed to non-members after a transition period. We will continue to broadcast important news on our LinkedIn group. In order to see all the information generated by the CWG, please bookmark this wiki page and visit it periodically, and consider joining OMG as a member. This will give you access to all of OMG's work, not just the CWG's.
The following people are currently able to edit this wiki directly, and more will be added as appropriate:
Others should be able to use the discussion box to suggest changes, and the authors will implement the changes or discuss them with the authors of the suggestions. If you encounter any difficulty doing so, please contact Claude Baudoin.
Also contact Claude if you wish to become an author/editor of this wiki. You will be given your own username and password to do so.
This is a list of relevant international and national standards; compliance or certification programs; and other initiatives, strategies, policies, procedures, and governance documents that should be considered when formulating positions, creating documents, or suggesting OMG standardization efforts.
In existence:
In progress:
ANSI X9 (Accredited Standards Committee on Financial Services) has been preparing, since mid-2020, a new standard called X9.125 on cloud security and cryptography for financial institutions. Claude Baudoin is a member of the authoring team and has ensured that input provided by several members of OMG's Cloud WG was incorporated into the standard. The development was completed in Q3 2023.
(under construction, in part by collecting references from the existing CSCC guides and white papers, or those sent by members of this group)
Help us populate this section by sending event listings to the CWG co-chairs. If you attend an event, please take notes and transform them into a subpage of this wiki (we'll explain how – see Section 5.2).
Event | Dates | Location | Notes |
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SWISM | July 3-5, 2024 | Taiwan | The International Workshop on Semantic Web/Cloud Information and Services Discovery and Management (SWISM-2024) brings together scientists, engineers, computer users and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of intelligent methods applied to Web- and Cloud-based systems, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. |
Di Martino, Beniamino, Giuseppina Cretalla, and Antonio Esposito: Cloud Portability and Interoperability. Springer Briefs in Computer Science, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-13701-8.
International Organization for Standards (ISO): ISO/IEC 19944-1:2020 Cloud computing and distributed platforms ─ Data flow, data categories and data use - Part 1: Fundamentals (for purchase)
Lawson, Angela, et al.: Beyond Theory: Getting Practical With Blockchain. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, February 2019, 27 pages.
Makhlouf, Rasha: Cloudy transaction costs: a dive into cloud computing economics. Journal of Cloud Computing, Vol. 9 (2020)
Discussion Forum
Next additions planned:
On 04 Sep 2018, Ram Marupudi (Southeastern Grocers) sent suggestions to have a top navigation section and social media links. Some of the suggestions do not need to be fully implemented here, as they are covered by the OMG's Cloud WG website, but they at least need links from the wiki to the full site (which is currently only referenced indirectly when talking about the existing papers and guides).