open cloud access protocol (opencap)
– definition, deployment, and life cycle mgmt of cloiud resources
– aloc, provisioning, and metering of clourd resources
– metasdat,/registry for cloud resources
– virtual infrastructure
– why ietf?  they are brilliant folks.  we’re not attaching any vendor-specific details
– open source implentation planned
– structure
— resource model
— all infastructure
— nodes, networks, etc
— resource properties
— modeled as json objects
— standard catalog of attributes, extensible
— resource operations
— operation, control, etc.
— management ntification services
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– smtp is simple.  protocols must be simple
– traffic server has bindings built in (or vice versa?)
– open cloud consortium
— a national testbed to bring clouds together