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Welcome to the Cloud Working Group Wiki
The OMG Cloud Working Group, formed in July 2018, is the successor to the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), started in 2011.
1. Mission
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.
2. Co-Chairs and Members
The co-chairs of the Working Group, until the September 2020 meeting, are:
Claude Baudoin (Principal, cébé IT & Knowledge Management)
David Harris (Supply Chain Cyber Security, The Boeing Company)
Lisa Schenkewitz (Executive IT Architect, IBM)
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.
3. Meetings
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:
a face-to-face meeting (half a day or a full day) during the quarterly
OMG meeting week;
teleconferences as required between
OMG meetings.
The next face-to-face meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 11 December 2019, during the OMG meeting in Long Beach, Calif., USA, from 9:00 to 12:00 Pacific Standard Time. Remote participation will be available.
The agenda of our meetings generally follows this pattern:
Welcome and introductions
Review of papers completed or started during the previous quarter
Special presentation(s) by a CWG member or an invitee
Review of the potential upcoming paper, participant feedback and prioritization, new suggestions, etc.
Discussion of other actions (events, standards efforts, etc.)
Agenda items for the following face-to-face meeting
Notes from the CWG meeting on 18 June 2019 in Amsterdam
Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Sep 2019 in Nashville (placeholder for notes to be written)
Notes from the CWG meeting on 11 Dec 2019 in Long Beach (placeholder for next meeting)
4. Deliverables per OMG Process
4.1. Discussion Papers
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. The workflow for each paper will conclude with:
the preparation of an “external draft” for review by anyone (including non-
OMG members) who cares to comment
a four-week review period directed at the members of the appropriate
OMG Task Force (for technically-oriented papers, it will be the Middleware and Related Services [MARS] Task Force)
a short presentation of the paper, with a summary of edits made as a result of the review, to the Task Force members
a Task Force vote to issue the papers.
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.
4.1.1. Existing Guides and Papers
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:
references to obsolete technologies,
important evolution of the market,
new opinions presented by CWG members,
appearance of new standards.
In addition, revisions should address the following objectives:
re-branding the paper or guide with the
OMG logo, the name of the Cloud Working Group, and the
OMG copyright notice,
acknowledging authors (some older papers did not contain an acknowledgement section),
fixing “link rot” and replacing obsolete links with newer ones,
aligning the terminology with the most recent usage (e.g., “CSP” and “CSC” for cloud service provides and customers, respectively),
tightening the language when there are repetitions or unnecessary statements,
fixing any typos or grammar errors.
4.1.2. Papers or RFIs Proposed or in Progress
Title | Leaders | Kick-off | External Draft | Planned Vote |
Practical Guide to Cloud Adoption in Retail | Jyoti Chawla | ? | ? | March or June 2020 |
RFI on Cyber Insurance | David Harris | Oct 2019 | 11 Nov 2019 | 12 Dec 2019 |
Cyber Insurance for Cloud Risks | David Harris | ? | ? | June 2020 (?) |
Practical Guide to Data Governance in the Cloud | Karolyn Schalk | ? | ? | ? |
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 end of 2019 and the first half of 2020 (reviewed at each meeting), includes:
The December 2018 meeting raised the need for a Catalog of Cloud Standards.
The December 2018 meeting also raised the potential need to revise the Interoperability Paper, even though it is relatively recent (December 2017), in order to add a new scenario about data migration, and mention interoperability patterns. David Harris and Beniamino Di Martino are the initial champions of this proposal.
A new paper, suggested by Karen Shunk (
OMG) that would inherit work previously done by the ARTS Council (now the
OMG Retail Domain Task Force or RDTF). This would be branded as a joint paper of the RDTF and CWG, and would go through the RDTF for approval. Tentative title:
Practical Guide to Cloud Adoption in Retail. The focus would be on retail use cases, so that it would not repeat the content of other papers, but point to those papers instead.
A new paper, suggested by Alex Tumashov (Schlumberger) on Data Governance in the Cloud. Karolyn Schalk commented:
Data governance is mentioned within the Practical Guide to Cloud Governance, to remind people that it is one of the governance types that needs to be “harmonized” when establishing cloud governance. Data governance is a pretty mature discipline, still too few organizations practice it thoughtfully, and lack of it is a major impediment to good data science results, and for creating quality machine learning models and then sustaining them. If a paper were initiated my suggestion would be to focus on “contemporary topics in data governance” and cover data science, AI, machine learning as reasons to adopt. A paper of 15 pages or less.
4.1.3. Important Points about the OMG Publication Process
Getting a document approved without too much delay if the final draft is ready a few days after an OMG meeting. The MARS Task Force agreed, during its December 2018 meeting, on the following rules. We will propose that other Task Forces that may be asked to approve other papers follow those rules too, and we will submit them as suggestions to the new Process Subcommittee of the Architecture Board.
The OMG standard footer at the bottom of the cover page of a Discussion Paper says that it is not an official position of the OMG.
4.2. RFIs, RFCs and RFPs
Per OMG policies and procedures, there are now new types of deliverables that the CWG may undertake:
RFIs when more information is required from members, users or vendors
RFPs when the CWG wishes to solicit a new standard
RFCs when there is an existing, uncontested technology that can become a standard
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.
5. Call for Participation
5.1. Joining the CWG and the mailing list
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.
5.2. Contributing to this Wiki
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.
6.1. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 Standards
In existence:
ISO/IEC 23189, Framework for Trust in Processing for Multi-Sourced Data. This actually relates more to the OMG’s Data Governance WG than to the Cloud WG. This will be mentioned to the
OMG Data Governance WG co-chairs for their consideration.
ISO/IEC 22624, Taxonomy-Based Data Handling for Cloud Services.
ISO/IEC 22678, Guidance for Policy Development
In progress:
ISO/IEC 23167, Common Technologies and Concepts
ISO/IEC 23187, Interacting with Cloud Services Partners
ISO/IEC 23188, Edge Computing Landscape. This is coordinated with SC 41 (IoT), whose Working Group 3 (IoT Architecture) is led by Erin Bournival (Dell) who also co-chairs the Standards Task Group (STG) of the
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). This is more relevant to the IIC than to the
OMG, but since Claude Baudoin participates in the IIC STG meetings, he can discuss the connection to the cloud with Erin.
ISO/IEC 23613, Service Metering and Billing.
6.2 Other Guidelines
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Cloud Ethics Opinions Around the U.S. (a compilation from the American Bar Association about the criteria that are used to determine that lawyers can ethically use cloud computing in their practice)
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(under construction, in part by collecting references from the existing CSCC guides and white papers, or those sent by members of this group)
7. Bibliography
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).