Cloud Computing Standardization: Insights from past standardization

Ken Krechmer

3/18/2015
(Original Publish Date: 2012)

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than as products. It promises to dramatically simplify the development and deployment of new and very large economic, social and environmental applications. The future success of these applications will be greatly impacted by the standardization processes used to define the building blocks and interfaces in these systems. The standardization of very large, multi-national cloud computing systems is just beginning. The history of standardization and other large system standards offers valuable lessons on how cloud computing standardization might proceed to maximize vendor participation and user acceptance. This paper proposes a technical approach to assist cloud computing standard development organizations accomplish these difficult tasks.