Draft of Open Cloud Principles (OCP) updated
The Open Cloud Principles (OCP) draft has been updated based on feedback received. In particular, intellectual property has been split into copyrights, patents and trademarks for the sake of clarity and a number of the requirements have been demoted to recommendations. This change was made to maximise compatibility with existing standards, particularly those which may have been developed by a single company rather than an open community process (e.g. Amazon EC2 API, Google GData).
Note that per RFC 2119 the intention is that these points still be carefully examined and, depending on the circumstances, failing to meet one or more of them may result in rejection or a provisional certification being granted. Furthermore, a competing, more compliant standard becoming available (for example, one developed by way of a community consensus process) may result in the revocation of certification.
3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
You can always obtain the latest version from Google Code:
After resolving any objections by way of a consensus process the draft will transition to the final version and become the basis on which licesnses for use of the "Open Cloud" trademark will be issued.
