ITU launches Joint Coordination Activity on cloud computing

Grazed from Telecom Paper.  Author: PR Announcement.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a Joint Coordination Activity on cloud computing (JCA-Cloud). The work of the ITU-T Focus Group on Cloud Computing (FG Cloud) will now be progressed through a number of ITU Study Groups with the JCA acting as a mechanism to coordinate the many dimensions of the study of cloud computing.

The primary objectives of JCA-Cloud will be to allocate FG Cloud’s deliverables to study groups with associated domains of competence, and to ensure that the ITU-T standardisation work on cloud computing progresses in a well-coordinated manner across all the relevant study groups…

The Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) decided that ITU-T Study Group 13 be designated the lead study group on cloud computing. Alongside this internal coordination role, JCA-Cloud will also take up an external collaboration role. It will analyse the cloud computing work taking place in regional and national standards development organisations (SDOs), consortia and fora, and will act as a point of contact for external bodies seeking to coordinate or collate their cloud computing standardisation work with that of ITU-T. In carrying out this external collaboration role, representatives from national and regional organisations, consortia and fora may be invited to join JCA-Cloud.