[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 167 (Wednesday, August 30, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41210-41211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18354]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Federated Cloud Public Working Group

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; announcement of working group teleconference.

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SUMMARY: The NIST Cloud Computing Program (NCCP) announces the 
reconstitution of its Federated Cloud Public Working Group. The Working 
Group's activities will resume and initiate work to develop a 
vocabulary of terms to support federated cloud and federated cloud 
environments, as well as a conceptual architecture for federated cloud. 
Participation in the

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Working Group is open to all interested parties.

DATES: An initial teleconference will take place on Thursday, August 
31, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The goal for completion of the 
work is June 30, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Bohn, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 
20899-4800, telephone number 301-975-4731, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NCCP announces the reconstitution of its 
Federated Cloud Public Working Group (Working Group). The Working Group 
was formed to address Requirement #5 of NIST's US Government Cloud 
Computing Technology Roadmap (NIST SP 500-293) (Cloud Computing 
Roadmap), ``Frameworks to Support Federated Community Clouds.'' This 
requirement calls for ``frameworks to support seamless implementation 
of federated community cloud environments.'' The Working Group's 
activities will resume and initiate work to try and fully understand 
and describe the elements of federated cloud computing. Assorted topics 
include developing and gaining consensus on a common federated cloud 
computing vocabulary, as well as developing an underlying conceptual 
model of what federated cloud computing is, its major components, and 
users/stakeholders.
    An initial teleconference will take place on Thursday, August 31, 
2017, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The dial-in number is 1-877-953-0273, 
and the passcode is 456-4979. Members of the public who wish to 
participate in the teleconference should provide their name and email 
address to [email protected], no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 
Thursday, August 24, 2017. Responses received after the deadline will 
also be added to the group's mailing list, but they may not receive 
initial documentation prior to the first meeting. Members of the public 
who provide their email addresses but who cannot participate in the 
initial teleconference will still be notified about subsequent 
meetings. It is anticipated that there will be subsequent monthly 
meetings by teleconference on the fourth Thursday of every month from 
either 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time or 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 
Eastern Time. A schedule of meeting times will be provided to all 
participants who submit their name and email address as provided above. 
Participation in the Working Group is open to all interested parties; 
there is no fee to participate. Standing Rules Documents explaining how 
the group will be run will be made available at the first meeting to 
all Working Group members. Final technical recommendations from the 
Working Group will be made publicly accessible on the NIST Cloud 
Computing Portal, and NIST may make the results of this Working Group 
available to Standards Developing Organizations and other interested 
parties.

Background

    The Cloud Computing Roadmap is being used industry-wide to advance 
the rapid adoption of cloud computing. Two of the 10 requirements 
(numbers 5 and 8) in the Cloud Computing Roadmap point to the next 
generation of cloud computing which will be focused on the concept of 
federated clouds. Federated clouds represent a future where there is 
seamless integration between multiple cloud service providers. 
Fulfilling this vision of the future of cloud computing will require a 
foundational effort to understand all the technological and standards-
based obstacles that will need to be addressed to build the necessary 
underlying architecture.

Scope

    The scope of the project is to fully understand and describe the 
elements of federated cloud computing. This will involve developing and 
gaining consensus on a common federated cloud computing vocabulary, as 
well as developing an underlying conceptual model of what federated 
cloud computing is, its major components, and users/stakeholders. The 
Working Group will then use that conceptual model to map out an 
implementation strategy including a gap analysis to identify the 
missing technologies and standards needed to cultivate a seamless 
system of systems. The anticipated results are:
     Federated Cloud Computing Vocabulary;
     Conceptual Model of Federated Clouds; and
     Technology Gap Analysis.
    The Working Group will also investigate and identify the needed 
technologies, tools, and standards to enable these environments. They 
will use material from NIST's Cloud Computing Reference Architecture 
(NIST SP 500-292) and materials located at the group's public twiki 
site: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/RATax_FedCommunity.
    The Working Group will work in a coordinated effort with the IEEE 
ICWG/2302 WG--Intercloud Working Group to produce an implementation of 
this reference material and create a compliant technical standard. A 
list of NIST's Cloud Computing Working Groups can be found at http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/bin/view/CloudComputing/WebHome#Working_Groups_of_NIST_Cloud_Com. The work of the NIST Cloud 
Computing Working Groups is interrelated, and this Working Group will 
also liaise with other working groups as needed.

    Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b)(3) & (c)(12).

Kevin Kimball,
NIST Chief of Staff.
[FR Doc. 2017-18354 Filed 8-29-17; 8:45 am]
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