Cloud – OLS9 – E
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
TELECOMMUNICATION
STANDARDIZATION SECTOR
English only
STUDY PERIOD 2009-2012
WG(s):
Original: English
All
Ref. : Cloud-O-0019R1
Source:
Focus Group on Cloud Computing (Geneva, 2-6 September 2010)
Title:
LS – Request for mapping relevant activities
LIAISON STATEMENT
SDOs
For action to:
For comment to:
For information to:
Approval:
Agreed to at FG Cloud meeting
Deadline:
23 November 2010
Contact:
Victor Kutukov
Email: kva@stacksoft.ru
FG Cloud Chairman
Contact:
Jamil Chawki
Email: jamil.chawki@orange-ftgroup.com
FG Vice-Chairman
The ITU-T Focus Group on Cloud Computing (FG Cloud) wishes to thank you for acknowledging
our work on cloud computing and responding with your valuable comments.
After the first FG Cloud meeting, it is pleased to inform you that we made progress at the second
meeting of the Focus Group on Cloud Computing (FG Cloud) resulting in five output documents
covering the activities of the two Working Groups of the FG Cloud with the following scopes:
1. Introduction to the cloud ecosystem: definitions, taxonomies, use cases, high level
requirements and capabilities. Results are in cloud-o-0010. The scope of this deliverable is
to provide an introduction to the Cloud ecosystems, focusing on integration and support of
Cloud Computing model and technologies in telecommunication ecosystems. Major
Progress: it was decided to include definitions for Communication as a Services CaaS and
Network as a Services NaaS, new inter-cloud use cases, value proposition, general
requirements and capabilities clauses according to the agreements reached in FG Cloud#2
meeting.
2. Functional requirements and reference architecture. Results are in cloud-o-0011. The
scope of this deliverable is to define the functional requirement and reference architecture of
cloud computing, which includes the functional architecture, functional entities and
reference points. Major progress: a first requirements for Reference Architecture was
introduced including virtualization, cloud orchestration, configuration plane, records plane,
control plane (Virtual Resource Management), traffic plane, management plane and enduser service access.
Attention: Some or all of the material attached to this liaison statement may be subject to ITU copyright. In such a case this will be
indicated in the individual document.
Such a copyright does not prevent the use of the material for its intended purpose, but it prevents the reproduction of all or part of it in a
publication without the authorization of ITU.
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3. Overview of SDOs involved in cloud computing. Results are in cloud-o-0012. The scope
of this document is to provide an overview of SDOs; to map the FG cloud working group
and output documents to these SDOs ; and , to be as a base to produce a gap analysis that
will result in a unique areas that can be under the ITU-T purview, specifically from telecom
perspective.
4. Cloud security, threat & requirements. Results are in cloud-o-0013. Discussion of
"Security Cloud" has started to review activities of other SDOs (CSA, DMTF, CloudAudit,
NIST, GICTF, etc) which are related Cloud Security. After the reviews of the existing
activities, the FG Cloud tentatively identified security threats from the standpoints of Cloud
user and Cloud service provider. Considering the identified security threats, the FG Cloud
also discussed security requirements to be considered for Cloud Computing Technology.
The current security threats and requirements are not exhausted enough and further studies
for threats and requirements are required based on this output (cloud-o-0013)
5. Infrastructure and network enabled cloud. Results are in cloud-o-0014. Position existing
network infrastructure capability is a unique opportunity for service providers to provide
bundled offers combining Network and IT resources. In addition, service providers can
leverage their network asset to address network availability and performance for secure end
to end cloud services. Another opportunity for service providers is to evolve network
resource allocation and control to more dynamic in order to meet the needs to provision ondemand cloud services. Major progress: a skeleton document is created per the scope, and
some of the contributions are consolidated into the document.
The main expected deliverable of the FG Cloud is to identify the benefits of cloud from telecom
perspective in order to recommend the subjects for the Study within ITU-T. An overview of main
SDO involved in cloud standards is presented in output document “cloud-o-0012” with a first
mapping of the FG Cloud working group and output documents to these SDOs. It was decided to
ask the SDO chairmen to analyse this document and to complete the First mapping of SDOs
activities to ITU-T FG Cloud one (i.e. table in section 3).
FG Cloud appreciates your interests and collaboration on cloud computing.
A web page has been created for the FG Cloud with the following URL: http://www.itu.int/ITUT/focusgroups/cloud/ where relevant documents are available.
Attachments:
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Draft FG cloud meeting report (o-0022r1)
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ITU-T\COM-T\COMUD\LS\OLS9E.DOC