[occi-wg] Vendor Extensions

Randy Bias randyb at gogrid.com
Thu Apr 16 22:48:47 CDT 2009


Andre,

    That would be great, but I can envision vendors implementing things in a
different way initially and as one version 'wins' we can roll that into the
baseline as the API is iterated over time.


--Randy


On 4/16/09 8:18 PM, "Andre Merzky" <andre at merzky.net> wrote:

> Quoting [Randy Bias] (Apr 17 2009):
>> 
>> For example, I'm pretty sure we're still the only cloud with load balancers
>> and billing data provided via the API.
>> 
>> So, I'm keen to make sure that we start with a clean common subset of
>> functionality with the minimal set of nouns+verbs AND have a way to extend
>> the functionality on a per-vendor basis such that the baseline API is not
>> broken.
> 
> FWIW, extensions on per-functionality basis would be more
> useful than on per-vendor basis.  But that may well be
> wishful thinking...
> 
> Andre.
> 


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