On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > As already noted, the term 'cloud' is now used in many different ways, > including as a synonym for 'network' and for 'Internet', even amongst > technical folk. (Really.)
I get the impression that this was the original usage, from diagrams where the network was abstracted as a vague cloud whose details were irrelevant. Hence "cloud computing" == computing somwhere out in the network where we don't need to care about the details. > <http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/cloud-def-v15.doc> Nice. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
