Open Cloud Computing Interface¶

An Open Grid Forum specification family defining REST-oriented models and interfaces for interoperable cloud resource management.

Version: v1 · 2026-09-08 · History
Domain-specific #: 5879
Origin domain: cloud computing
Subdomain: cloud computing

Core Idea¶

OCCI describes a core resource model plus infrastructure, platform, and extension categories with renderings and transports for creating, inspecting, updating, and deleting cloud resources. Standardized kinds, mixins, links, attributes, and actions separate an abstract resource model from provider-specific implementations. The abstraction is therefore identified by a declared carrier, a transformation or constraint over that carrier, and an invariant that tells an analyst whether the named structure is genuinely present.

The load-bearing residual is not the broad topic of cloud computing. It is the domain-specific identity determined by an implementation follows the declared OCCI version’s resource model, categories, attributes, actions, and protocol rendering.

Scope of Application¶

Open Cloud Computing Interface belongs to cloud computing and is useful where the analyst can specify the typed cloud computing carrier, defining objects and relations, parameters, conventions, evidence, boundary cases and comparison targets, then evaluate an implementation follows the declared OCCI version’s resource model, categories, attributes, actions, and protocol rendering. The scope is broad within that domain but bounded by the need for an implementation follows the declared OCCI version’s resource model, categories, attributes, actions, and protocol rendering. The entry records a descriptive analytical identity; practical use requires the governing domain's evidence, standards, and safety obligations.

Clarity¶

The abstraction clarifies a crowded vocabulary by making an implementation follows the declared OCCI version’s resource model, categories, attributes, actions, and protocol rendering the center of the account. A claim should name the carrier, the governing operation or relation, the applicable assumptions, and the recognition test. A bare label is insufficient because the name Open Cloud Computing Interface can be used for a formal identity, an implementation, or a neighboring result unless carrier and convention are stated.

Manages Complexity¶

Without the abstraction, an analyst must reason directly over many local details: the carrier roles, admissibility assumptions, competing conventions, derived invariants, boundary cases, and proof or validation obligations specific to Open Cloud Computing Interface. Open Cloud Computing Interface compresses them into the roles in the structural signature. That compression permits comparison across instances without erasing the variables that determine validity. It also exposes which details may be varied safely and which are constitutive.

Abstract Reasoning¶

Identify the carrier. State what the elements, states, objects, or observations are: the typed cloud computing carrier, defining objects and relations, parameters, conventions, evidence, boundary cases and comparison targets. Reject examples whose alleged carrier belongs to a different problem. 2. Lock the constitutive rule. Express an implementation follows the declared OCCI version’s resource model, categories, attributes, actions, and protocol rendering independently of one notation or implementation.

Knowledge Transfer¶

Knowledge transfers strongly among subfields of cloud computing because they reuse the typed cloud computing carrier, defining objects and relations, parameters, conventions, evidence, boundary cases and comparison targets, Standardized kinds, mixins, links, attributes, and actions separate an abstract resource model from provider-specific implementations., and type the carrier, state every parameter and convention in the definition, test that an implementation follows the declared OCCI version’s resource model, categories, attributes, actions, and protocol rendering, compare the nearest accepted identity, and report counterexamples, uncertainty, and limiting cases.

Relationships to Other Abstractions¶

Current abstraction Open Cloud Computing Interface Domain-specific

Parents (1) — more general patterns this builds on

Open Cloud Computing Interface is a kind of Standardization Prime

The proposed strict upward parent is prime:standardization.

Hierarchy path (1) — routes to 1 parentless root

Open Cloud Computing Interface → Standardization

Neighborhood in Abstraction Space¶

Open Cloud Computing Interface sits in a moderately populated region (54^th percentile for distinctiveness): it has near-neighbors but no dense thicket of look-alikes.

Family — Messaging Protocols & Networked Services (23 abstractions)

Nearest neighbors

Computed from structural-signature embeddings · 2026-09-08