NIST Big Data Working Group, Open Source, and Standards

[Bob Marcus <ro...@et-strategies.com>]

Alan, Arun, Devaraj:

 I am the industry and standards Co-Chair of NIST's Big Data Working Group Initiative.  Participants include representatives of industry,  standards groups (SDOs), vendors, and academia, The goals of the Working Group are to:
Develop Big Data Definitions
Develop Big Data Taxonomies
Develop Big Data Reference Architectures
Develop Big Data Technology Roadmap
Today I suggested that the NIST WG could encourage a dialog between the Open Source community (e.g. Apache) and SDOs on possible future de jure standardization of interfaces based on existing de facto standards (e.g. parts of the Hadoop ecosystem). This de jure interface standardization would be beneficial for international and US government adoption. As a counterexample, in the Cloud space there is a big gap between industry and SDO interface standards.

I would be interested in your perspective on the possibilities and potential mutual benefits of a discussion among Open Source providers, NIST, and SDOs. Thanks. 

Bob Marcus
Co-Chair of NIST Big Data Working Group
720-352-0784

P.S. An example of standardizing a core interface without precluding innovations is SQL for relational databases. 

Re: Resend: NIST Big Data Working Group, Open Source, and Standards

[Nick Dimiduk <nd...@gmail.com>]

dev to bcc, +devaraj

Hi Bob,

I think you meant to address Devaraj Das, not the HBase Developer list.

Thanks,
Nick

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Bob Marcus <robert.marcus@et-strategies.com
> wrote:

> Alan, Arun, Devaraj:
>
>  I am the industry and standards Co-Chair of NIST's Big Data Working Group
> Initiative.  Participants include representatives of industry,  standards
> groups (SDOs), vendors, and academia, The goals of the Working Group are to:
> Develop Big Data Definitions
> Develop Big Data Taxonomies
> Develop Big Data Reference Architectures
> Develop Big Data Technology Roadmap
> I have suggested that the NIST Big Data WG could encourage a dialog
> between the Open Source community (e.g. Apache) and SDOs on possible future
> de jure standardization of interfaces based on existing de facto standards
> (e.g. parts of the Hadoop ecosystem). This de jure interface
> standardization would be beneficial for international and US government
> adoption.
>
> I would be interested in your perspective on the possibilities and
> potential mutual benefits of a Big Data discussion among Open Source
> solution providers, NIST, and SDOs. Thanks.
>
> Bob Marcus
> Co-Chair of NIST Big Data Working Group
> 720-352-0784
>
>
>

Resend: NIST Big Data Working Group, Open Source, and Standards

[Bob Marcus <ro...@et-strategies.com>]

Alan, Arun, Devaraj:

 I am the industry and standards Co-Chair of NIST's Big Data Working Group Initiative.  Participants include representatives of industry,  standards groups (SDOs), vendors, and academia, The goals of the Working Group are to:
Develop Big Data Definitions
Develop Big Data Taxonomies
Develop Big Data Reference Architectures
Develop Big Data Technology Roadmap
I have suggested that the NIST Big Data WG could encourage a dialog between the Open Source community (e.g. Apache) and SDOs on possible future de jure standardization of interfaces based on existing de facto standards (e.g. parts of the Hadoop ecosystem). This de jure interface standardization would be beneficial for international and US government adoption. 

I would be interested in your perspective on the possibilities and potential mutual benefits of a Big Data discussion among Open Source solution providers, NIST, and SDOs. Thanks. 

Bob Marcus
Co-Chair of NIST Big Data Working Group
720-352-0784