The IEEE Cloud Computing Standards Committee (CCSC) is chartered by the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activities Board to promote the development of standards in all aspects of the cloud computing ecosystem. It facilitates the development and use of standards-based choices by cloud computing ecosystem participants (cloud vendors, service providers, and users) in areas such as cloud application interfaces, cloud portability interfaces, cloud management interfaces, cloud interoperability interfaces, cloud file formats, and cloud operation conventions.
Stakeholders are Cloud vendors, service providers, and users in areas such as cloud application interfaces, cloud portability interfaces, cloud management interfaces, cloud interoperability interfaces, cloud file formats, and cloud operation conventions.
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IEEE P2301 Revision to IEEE Standard 2301-2020 Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profiles (CPIP)
PAR Approved by Standards Board: February 2023
Chair: Brian D’Andrade
This guide advises cloud computing ecosystem participants (cloud vendors, service providers, and users) of standards-based choices in areas such as application interfaces, portability interfaces, management interfaces, interoperability interfaces, file formats, software bill of materials, and operation conventions. This guide groups these choices into multiple logical profiles, which are organized to address different cloud roles.
Change to Need for the Project: The cloud landscape today is highly dynamic and continually evolving, and it consists of multiple independent and potentially incompatible cloud vendors and providers, based on both proprietary and open architectures. These This IEEE Std 2301 needs to be updated at clouds a similar cadence as industry and/or incorporate suitable mechanisms to remain relevant to a changing landscape and security considerations. Clouds can have many different application interfaces, portability interfaces, management interfaces, interoperability interfaces, file formats, operation conventions, and visible dependencies of many kinds. The industry will have many implementation choices for Cloud Computing systems, with a variety of different features or value added. However, the accidental proliferation of incompatible and semantically different interfaces, formats, and conventions is not in anyone’s interest. Most cloud ecosystem participants would prefer to align with or reuse generally accepted, common, or standardized conventions for these elements. Individual industry groups and standards organizations are working to create definitions for many of these interfaces, formats, and conventions; however, these are largely independent efforts and are not grouped into logical profiles. This guide will promote greater commonality , security, and efficiency in the cloud ecosystem.
Stakeholders: Cloud consumers, Cloud service providers, Cloud equipment manufacturers, Cloud software developers, Cloud exchange operators, Cloud registration authorities, Governments, Educational, Military
https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2301/11200/
IEEE P2303 Standard for Adaptive Management of Cloud Computing Environments
PAR Approved by Standards Board: 10 Nov 2022
Chair: Joel Fleck II
This standard defines foundational material crucial for the adaptive management of cloud computing ecosystems. Material within the scope of the standard includes: a vocabulary built upon existing cloud computing standards vocabularies, a description of a set of adaptive management classifications based on time, autonomy and operational scales, a conceptual adaptive management framework which describes the basic building blocks of the adaptive management standard and the core functionality of each. Finally, the standard includes a set of cloud computing use cases that are used to guide the development of the standard.
Need for the Project: Standards for cloud computing environments are being developed at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, one area of cloud computing standardization that is conspicuously missing is the management needed to support, maintain and manage the highly dynamic nature inherently provided by cloud computing environments. The goal of this project is to lay the foundational elements needed for the specification and development of a management environment that works along-side a cloud computing service delivery environment to assure that services are delivered to customers in a timely, cost-efficient manner while maintaining the dynamic re-configurability promised by cloud computing architectures.
Stakeholders for the Standard: Cloud consumers, Cloud service providers, Cloud equipment manufacturers, Cloud software developers, Cloud exchange operators
https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2303/11070/
IEEE P2304 Standard for Cloud Computing Shared Function Model
PAR Approved by Standards Board: 23 Sep 2021
Chair: Wei Li
This standard provides a general shared function model for cloud computing, in order to normalize how functions are shared between cloud service providers (CSPs) and cloud service customers (CSCs). The standard specifies functions ownership from seven aspects for three main cloud service delivery models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). The seven aspects of function are as follows: 1) The physical infrastructure function. 2) The virtualization infrastructure function. 3) The operating system function. 4) The network control function. 5) The application function. 6) The data function. 7) The identity and access management function. Each of the seven aspects considers many factors including security, management, etc. In this standard, levels 1 to 4, which are clearly the service provider’s function for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, are briefly mentioned for the integrity of the model. This standard focuses on levels 5, 6, and 7.
Ned for the Project: With the development of cloud computing and the expansion of the cloud service customer base, leveraging cloud computing to more safely and efficiently operate customers’ businesses becomes a main objective, which requires CSPs and CSCs to work together towards it. This is different from traditional on-premises information systems in which security is implemented by the same owner. This standard provides a shared function model for cloud computing to effectively help CSPs and CSCs identify and manage their own functions, and thus foster a good development ecology for cloud computing.
Stakeholders for the Standard: CSPs and CSCs.
https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2304/10690/
ACTIVE STANDARDS
IEEE Std. 2301-2020 Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profiles (CPIP)
Approved by Standards Board: 30 January 2020
Chair: Brian D’Andrade
This guide advises cloud computing ecosystem participants (cloud vendors, service providers, and users) of standards-based choices in areas such as application interfaces, portability interfaces, management interfaces, interoperability interfaces, file formats, software bill of materials, and operation conventions. This guide groups these choices into multiple logical profiles, which are organized to address different cloud roles.
Need for the Standard: The cloud landscape today consists of multiple independent and incompatible cloud vendors and providers, based on both proprietary and open architectures. These clouds have application interfaces, portability interfaces, management interfaces, interoperability interfaces, file formats, operation conventions, and visible dependencies of many kinds. The industry will have many implementation choices for Cloud Computing systems, with a variety of different features or value added. However, the accidental proliferation of incompatible and semantically different interfaces, formats, and conventions is not in anyone’s interest. Most cloud ecosystem participants would prefer to align with or reuse generally accepted, common, or standardized conventions for these elements. Individual industry groups and standards organizations are working to create definitions for many of these interfaces, formats, and conventions; however, these are largely independent efforts and are not grouped into logical profiles. This guide will promote greater commonality and efficiency in the cloud ecosystem.
Stakeholders for the Standard: Cloud consumers, Cloud service providers, Cloud equipment manufacturers, Cloud software developers, Cloud exchange operators, Cloud registration authorities, Governments
https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2301/5077/
IEEE Std. 2302-2021 Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation (SIIF)
Approved by Standards Board: 08 December 2021
Chair: Bob Bohn, Vice-chair: Martial Michel
A functional model for federation based on the NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture is defined in this standard. This model allows a range of deployment topologies and governance. As a general federation model, it can be applied to many application domains using different implementation approaches. As such, it includes cloud-to-cloud federation and interoperability.
Need for the Standard: The cloud landscape today consists of multiple independent and incompatible cloud offerings, based on both proprietary and open architectures. The growth of the Internet was facilitated by the creation of an interoperable service marketplace between Internet service consumers and Internet service providers. Clouds today do not interoperate, resulting in absolute limitations in geographical coverage, resource functionality, and resource scalability. A cloud provider may not have resources where a cloud consumer needs them; a cloud provider may not offer the type of resource needed; and a cloud provider’s resources cannot be infinitely elastic. Intercloud interoperability and federation solve all these problems. This is analogous to the interconnected economy that evolved amongst telephony service providers. This facilitated the original global long distance network for voice, and more recently today’s cellular world where one provider’s customers can “roam” on another provider’s network.
Stakeholders for the Standard: Cloud consumers, Cloud service providers, Cloud equipment manufacturers, Cloud software developers, Cloud exchange operators, Cloud registration authorities, Governments.
https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/2302/7056/
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