In my April 4th post on Open Services Infrastructure  I noted that there standards work was beginning in ISO on Clouds.  So, before the Blog Idol site shuts down for another year, I thought I had better provide an update.

There is indeed a new standards effort starting up.  Its called ISO JTC1/SC38 – Distributed Application Platforms and Services.  It was established by JTC1 late last year and is having its first meeting from May 12 -14 in Beijing, China.  While many details are yet to be worked out, this committee will have working groups on Web Services and SOA, and a Study Group on Cloud Computing.  They will be collaborating with a wide veriety of other standards organizations, and it looks like they will set an aggressive pace of work (for a standards committee!!).  So far, there are 16 countries participating with the USA as Chair.

Canada has set up a national committee to follow and contribute to the work.  The Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC JTC1/SC38) had its second meeting on May 3rd and has appointed delegates to attend the meeting in Beijing.  It looks like there may be quite a good level of interest in Canada. 

For anyone who might be interested in joining the work, contact Rob Pitre (rpitre@scc.ca) at the Standards Council of Canada for more information.  If you google JTC1/SC38 you will also find some useful references.

I hope that some of you may be interested enough to join in the development of Canadian cloud standards!!