[occi-wg] Syntax of OCCI API

[Sam Johnston]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Chris Webb <chris.webb at elastichosts.com>wrote:

> Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> writes:
>
> > For anything more complex though you do need to keep track of your
> [virtual]
> > networks separately, even if only because the client needs to be able to
> > enumerate them in order to give the users something to strap their VMs to
> > and (on the system management side) to link to a physical segment.
>
> You need to track virtual networks as first class objects (what Richard and
> I tend to call VLANs), not network interfaces which attach to them.


Agreed, but Richard was just saying "*I don't think that a separate object
is needed here at all*". I can see where that point of view comes from for
public clouds and maybe we can cater for both views by just assuming network
interfaces mean "Internet" unless otherwise specified.

I've been steering clear of the term VLAN because it means something to
network engineers (in the 802.1q tagging sense) - "virtual network" works
for me. We discussed having tags like "internet" and "vlan-4095" which meant
something in terms of termination... that translates nicely to categories
and I'm starting to think a category for VLAN 1..4095 is justified (thus
giving network engineers a well defined demarcation point).

Sam
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