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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, until the September 2019 meeting, are:
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 that after the first year, the CWG will formally elect its co-chairs. Lisa Schenkewitz (IBM) has volunteered to alternate with Karolyn Schalk and take one of the co-chair seats in the summer of 2019.
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, status reviews and discussions of the CWG's roadmap will occur during regular OMG meetings. The initial cadence of meetings, agreed at the 25 Sep 2018 kickoff meeting in Ottawa, is:
The next face-to-face meeting is scheduled for the week of 24-27 March 2019, during the OMG meeting in ReSton, VA (near Washington, DC), USA. It will most likely take place on Tuesday or Wednesday (March 25 or 26), 9:00 am–12:00 pm., Eastern Standard Time.
The CSCC created 28 guides or papers during its existence. All of those become “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.
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. It will then be presented by one or more of the co-chairs at the quarterly meeting of the OMG's Middleware and Related Services (MARS) Task Force, in order to prepare MARS for review, approval and issuance of the papers.
Title with Link | Version | Date | Change Requests |
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Practical Guide to Cloud Computing | 3.0 | Dec 2017 | |
Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing | 1.0 | Feb 2016 | |
Practical Guide to Cloud Management Platforms | 1.0 | Jul 2017 | |
Security for Cloud Computing: Ten Steps to Ensure Success | 3.0 | Dec 2017 | |
Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services | |||
In Q4 2018, we worked on three papers in parallel:
All three papers are scheduled to have their final review and approval in Q1 2019. The first and third paper above will be subject to an e-mail vote by the MARS Task Force in February, while the paper on Cloud Governance will go in front of the Task Force during its regular meeting in Reston.
This status and plans were presented to the MARS Task Force on December 13, 2018. Presentation here.
The roadmap for Q1 2019 work (with approval in June), still subject to discussion, includes:
A new paper on Cyber Insurance and the Cloud may be proposed as an alternative to developing a large section on this topic within the Practical Guide to CSAs.
The revised roadmap will be submitted to feedback by the CWG members by January 2019, perhaps during a webinar.
Issues in Progess:
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.
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:
(under construction, in part by collecting references from the existing CSCC guides and white papers, or those sent by members of this group)
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).