Who Owns Application Delivery Meta-Data In the Cloud?

Random Feature writes "The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) is currently discussing cloud portability specifications. It seems crazy to define a standard before we even know who owns what in the cloud because you can only port what you own. For example, if you created a security or acceleration policy for your cloud computing-based app, is the policy yours or the provider's? Who owns meta-data in the cloud?" True portability between clouds seems to hang on the answer.

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[Anonymous Coward]

TROLL

Welcome to the 70ies

[DUdsen]

Since there isn't a cloud it's all nonsense, there's a good old fashioned mainframe operator and a customer using the system the law and contracting models for those was laid down in the 70ies and just because the 3270 have given way to the AJAX enabled browser and everyone is talking community we don't have a different situation.

Stop treating the cloud as if it was something unknown and start realising how much it's just the successor to the mainframe and thing stats making sense.

Wait till cloud 2.0 comes out

[edittard]

But the Cloud is a particularly silly example.

the whole thing is quite literally a nebulous concept.

Enough razzle dazzle already!

[thethibs]

The Cloud is aptly named. I've read TFA and several levels of links from there and I'm no more informed than when I woke up this morning.

"Portability" is a concept, not a thing, so these folk need to explain what it is they want to port. "Metadata" isn't an answer. Metadata is data about data, so what data about what data about which phenomena are they talking about?

The other thing I'd like to know is, in what way is "the Cloud" distinct from a distributed server architecture, or what was once called a network application framework?