1. Luis Jorge Romero Saro ETSI Director-General
Document No:
GSC16-PLEN-37
Source:
ETSI
Contact:
Luis Jorge Romero Saro
GSC Session:
PLENARY
Agenda Item:
6.11
CLOUDs
Luis Jorge Romero Saro
ETSI Director-General

2. Highlight of Current Activities
TC CLOUD
“Bricks” in TC LI
EC-ETSI Workshop held Sept. 2011
In cooperation with European Commission, NIST, EuroCIO & EuroCloud
Policy/legal requirements
Standardization landscape
User requirements

3. Known hurdles in today’s cloud
Jurisdiction, a very tough one
Legal requirements, e.g. privacy, data security, LI in the cloud
Portability  how “multi-supplier” the market will be?
Interoperability
Terms and definitions
ability to compare services from different suppliers
trust in commercial contracts (e.g. SLAs)
Trust

4. and known requests… All sectors see the economic benefit of the cloud…
Public
Private
…but fear the same threats and roadblocks
…and think standards can help solve the situation

5. But… Cloud has been on the standards agenda for a while…
mainly focused on infrastructures
Very much a supply push, not yet a demand one
at least, in the short term
Many parallel initiatives worldwide
Risk of fragmentation

6. The fog is removing from the Clouds…
Key customers (e.g. major service providers, large enterprises,...) have strong requirements and want to see them addressed
Public administrations need to be able to move to cloud
NIST has started some specification work on cloud

7. ETSI any standards will have to be a multi-SDOs (and fora) effort
Industry and users want coordination
Main tracks after the Workshop
Channel EU regulatory provisions into standardization
EU/US cooperation (with NIST)
Work with demand-side to address requirements
Work with supply side (for certification)

8. What’s next?
ETSI welcomes co-operation and knowledge sharing in this area:
to avoid duplication of work
to avoid fragmentation
there is much to do here; GSC PSOs should not fear “competition” but should work together on this !