[Capi-bof] Charter for Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) Working Group

[Alexis Richardson]

Andre - does that work for you?

We only want to boil a small cup of water.  Not an ocean.


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Alexis Richardson
> <alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd rather suggest to compartmentalize: from the beginning,
>> > try to keep track of the characteristics both VMs and apps
>> > have in common (you mention memory, CPU, storage, etc), and
>> > try to design those elements of the OCCI API to be reusable
>> > for other (PaaS/SaaS) APIs later on.
>>
>> As I understand it this is being suggested - if it is not, then let's
>> discuss.  If it is, then is it clear enough?
>
> Exactly, and that's why the charter is still focusing on infrastructure and
> giving VM examples. In any case the baseline requirements will become clear
> as we analyse what's out there today - we should end up with something like
> the intersection of all of the existing APIs which will be tighter and
> cleaner than all of them (but still functional).
>
> Sam
>
>