The following documents and web sites are referenced in this Guide:
| [.NET] | The Microsoft .NET Framework; refer to: www.microsoft.com/net. |
| [ANDROID] | The Android Mobile Platform; refer to: www.android.com. |
| [C] | ISO/IEC 9899 – Programming Languages – C; refer to: www.iso.org. |
| [CAMP] | Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP); refer to: www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=camp. |
| [CAP] | Brewer’s Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, Partition-Tolerant Web Services, Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch, ACM SIGACT News, Volume 33 Issue 2 (2002), pp.51-59; refer to: http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pdf. |
| [CDMI] | Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), Storage Networking Industry Association; refer to: www.snia.org/cdmi. |
| [CIM] | The Common Information Model (CIM), Distributed Management Task Force; refer to: dmtf.org/standards/cim. |
| [CLOUD GUIDE] | Guide to Cloud Computing for Business, G114, August 2011, published by The Open Group; refer to: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/g114.htm. |
| [CMIP] | ITU-T Recommendation X.711: ISO/IEC 9596-1:1998: Information Technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Common Management Information Protocol: Specification; refer to: www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.711-199710-I/en. |
| [CMIS] | ITU-T Recommendation X.710: ISO/IEC 9596-1:1998: Information Technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Common Management Information Service; refer to: www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.710-199710-I/en. |
| [CSA] | Cloud Security Alliance; refer to: cloudsecurityalliance.org. |
| [DMTF] | Distributed Management Task Force; refer to: www.dmtf.org. |
| [ECMA262] | ECMAScript Language Specification, ECMA; refer to: www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-262.pdf. |
| [FIELDING] | Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, University of California, Irvive, 2000; refer to: www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm. |
| [HTML] | HyperText Markup Language, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/MarkUp. |
| [HTML5] | HTML5 Candidate Recommendation, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217. |
| [HTTP] | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Internet Engineering Task Force; refer to: www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html (see also HTTP over TLS: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818). |
| [IOS] | iOS Mobile Platform; refer to: www.apple.com/ios. |
| [IP] | Internet Protocol, IETF RFC 791; refer to: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791. |
| [J2EE] | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition; refer to: www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee. |
| [JAVA] | Java Programming Language; refer to: www.java.com. |
| [JAVASCRIPT] | Javascript Web Scripting Language; refer to (for example): www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp. |
| [JSON] | Javascript Object Notation; refer to: www.json.org. |
| [LINUX] | Linux Operating System; refer to: www.linuxfoundation.org. |
| [MSWIN] | Microsoft Windows; refer to: http://windows.microsoft.com. |
| [NIST DEFINITION] | Definition of Cloud Computing, US National Institute of Science and Technology, 2011; refer to: www.nist.gov. |
| [OAUTH] | Open Authentication Protocol; refer to: http://oauth.net. |
| [OCCI] | Open Cloud Computing Interface, Open Grid Forum; refer to: http://occi-wg.org. |
| [ODCA] | Open Data Center Alliance; refer to: www.opendatacenteralliance.org. |
| [OGBOOKS] | The Open Group Bookstore; refer to: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog. |
| [OPENSTACK] | Openstack Foundation; refer to: www.openstack.org. |
| [OSIMM] | The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), Version 2, Technical Standard, C117, November 2011, published by The Open Group; refer to: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c117.htm. |
| [OTA] | Open Travel Alliance; refer to: www.opentravel.org. |
| [OVF] | Open Virtualization Format, DMTF; refer to: www.dmtf.org/standards/ovf. |
| [OWASP] | OWASP Top Ten Project; refer to: www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project. |
| [OWL] | Web Ontology Language, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/TR/owl-overview. |
| [PHP] | PhP Web Scripting Language; refer to: http://php.net. |
| [PYTHON] | Python Programming Language; refer to: www.python.org. |
| [RDF] | Resource Description Framework, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210. |
| [SLASOI] | The SLA@SOI Consortium; refer to: http://sla-at-soi.eu . |
| [SOA] | The Open Group definition of SOA; refer to: www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/soa/soa.htm. |
| [SOAP] | Simple Object Access Protocol, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/TR/soap. |
| [SOARA] | SOA Reference Architecture, Technical Standard, C119, December 2011, published by The Open Group; refer to: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c119.htm. |
| [SOCK] | The Sockets Programming Interface; refer to: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xnsix.html. |
| [SNMP] | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), IETF; refer to: www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3411.txt. |
| [SQL] | ISO/IEC 9075:2011: Information Technology – Database Languages – SQL; refer to: www.iso.org. |
| [TCP] | Transmission Control Protocol, IETF RFC 793; refer to: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793. |
| [TOGAF] | The TOGAF® Standard, published by The Open Group; refer to: www.opengroup.org/togaf. |
| [TOSCA] | Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications, OASIS; refer to: www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca. |
| [UDDI] | Universal Description Discovery and Integration Standard, OASIS; refer to: uddi.xml.org. |
| [UDEF] | Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF), The Open Group; refer to: www.opengroup.org/udef. |
| [UNIX] | The UNIX® Operating System; refer to: www.unix.org. |
| [VMAN] | Virtualization Management Standards, DMTF; refer to: dmtf.org/standards/vman. |
| [WADL] | Web Application Description Language, submission to the World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/Submission/wadl. |
| [WEF-1] | Exploring the Future of Cloud Computing, World Economic Forum, May 2010; refer to: www.weforum.org. |
| [WEF-2] | Advancing Cloud Computing: What to Do Now? World Economic Forum, 2011; refer to: www.weforum.org. |
| [WS-I] | Web Service Interoperability Standards, OASIS; refer to: www.ws-i.org. |
| [WSDL] | Web Service Description Language, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/TR/wsdl. |
| [XML] | Extensible Markup Language, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/XML. |
| [XPath] | XML Path Language, World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to: www.w3.org/TR/xpath. |