Dr. Angel Diaz, VP, IBM SWG Standards is the thought provider behind an
article on the activities to ensure that the standards being developed
for the Open Cloud are drivers by the User.
For
an easy read, here is the link to the article -
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/625143-ibms-angel-diaz-3-projects-creating-user-driven-standards-for-the-open-cloud.
OpenStack - http://www.openstack.org/
Cloud Standards Customer Council - http://www.cloud-council.org/
TOSCA - https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca