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 … - 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