Irrational exuberance over cloud standards

Grazed from GCN.  Author: Michael C. Daconta.

The European Telecommunication Standards Institute’s (ETSI) Cloud Standards Coordination (CSC) initiative recently released a report on the state of cloud standards.  To be blunt, the report is the poor result of an ill-conceived initiative that is flawed in both its approach and conclusions.

And the Europeans aren’t alone in this folly over cloud standards. The ETSI report has been mirrored on the U.S. side of the Atlantic by the National Institute of Standards and Technology with its equally ill-conceived initiative making the case for Standards Acceleration to Jumpstart the Adoption of Cloud Computing…


While it is true that standards are vital to both cloud security and cloud interoperability, it is foolish to think that a government organization can influence the pace of technological maturity by policy or fiat. Technological maturity is the key determinant for the success of standards in terms of sufficiency, suitability and sustainability.   In other words, the less mature a technology, the less likely a standard will meaningfully address the issues it is designed to correct…

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