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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 2020 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 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:
Notes from the CWG meeting on 18 June 2019 in Amsterdam
Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Sep 2019 in Nashville
Notes from the CWG meeting on 11 Dec 2019 in Long Beach
Notes from the CWG meeting on 25 Mar 2020 in Reston (placeholder for agenda, and later for notes)
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:
* Downloads from the OMG Cloud WG “Published Deliverables” page from 1-Jan-2019 to 15-Oct-2019.
Title | Leaders | Kick-off | External Draft | Planned Vote |
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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:
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:
(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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Pacific Telecommunications Council | 19-22 Jan 2020 | Honolulu, HI | Announced by Steve Woodward |
CSA Summit at RSA 2020 Conference | 24 Feb 2020 | San Francisco | |
Google Cloud Next | 5-8 Apr 2020 | San Francisco | |
Cloud Computing Projects and Initiatives | 15-17 Apr 2020 | Caserta, Italy | (near Naples) |
CSA Federal Summit 2020 | 12 May 2020 | Washington, DC | |
CSA Summit New York City 2020 | June 2020 | New York, NY | |
CSA North America Congress | 14-18 Sep 2020 | Seattle, WA |
Di Martino, Beniamino, Giuseppina Cretalla, and Antonio Esposito: Cloud Portability and Interoperability. Springer Briefs in Computer Science, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-13701-8.
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).