米国：NISTが連邦政府用クラウドコンピューティングのセキュリティに関する従前のガイドラインを廃止し，新たな要求事項を提案

新たな要求事項を示す文書（ドラフト）は，下記のところで入手できる。

　US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap
　Volume I, Release 1.0 (Draft)
　NIST
　November 2011
　http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/upload/SP_500_293_volumeI-2.pdf

この文書の中で示されている10個の要求事項は，下記のとおり。

　Requirement  1: International Voluntary Consensus-Based Interoperability, Portability & Security Standards
　Requirement  2: Solutions for High-Priority Security Requirements
　Requirement  3: Technical Specifications for High-Quality Service-Level Agreements
　Requirement  4: Clear & Consistently Categorized Cloud Services
　Requirement  5: Frameworks to Support Federated Community Clouds
　Requirement  6: Technical Security Solutions De-coupled from Organization Policy
　Requirement  7: Defined Unique Government Requirements and Solutions
　Requirement  8: Collaborative Parallel ―future cloud‖ Development Initiatives
　Requirement  9: Defined & Implemented Reliability Design Goals
　Requirement 10: Defined & implemented Cloud Service Metrics