[occi-wg] OCCI Latest Draft

[Randy Bias]

I think that object storage is out of scope IMHO.  It deserves a  
separate API.


--Randy


On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Adrian Cole wrote:

> Hi, Sam.
>
> Very clear document.  Thanks for getting this together.
>
> I noticed that the storage noun is related to mountable storage.    
> Forgive me, if I missed the discussion.  What is the status of  
> object storage (ex. Amazon S3)?  I'm currently working on cloud  
> object storage interop in jclouds.  I'd expect something like the  
> following, if we aren't deferring this service to extensions:
>
> Object Storage
>
> An object storage resource is capable of mass, and potentially  
> limitless storage of key, value pairs.
>
> Table 3. Storage Attributes
>
> Attribute	Type	Description
> occi.objectstorage.public	Boolean (true,false)
> Expose objects without access controls
> occi.objectstorage.cname	String	cname that identifies global namespace
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> -Adrian
>
> jclouds
> http://code.google.com/p/jclouds
> http://anyweight.blogspot.com/
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> I've been doing some more work on the draft over the weekend and  
> today as I hope to have it in good condition in time for the various  
> cloud interop events next week. It's finally starting to take shape  
> now that extensions (e.g. state machines), attributes and registries  
> (e.g. HTTP status codes) have been added, even if they're a long way  
> from finished.
>
> The OCCI Core profile is generic and can be used with any resource,  
> while OCCI Infrastructure defines compute, network and storage nouns  
> (with attributes that are designed to be both extensible and  
> trivially mapped to txt, json and xml formats) as well as extensions  
> for relevant functionality like state machines.
>
> Anyway the GridForge subversion repository just blew up and my local  
> version doesn't build any more so given it's after 4am already I'm  
> going to call it a day and send what I have so far by mail  
> (attached). The master's DocBook v5 but there's HTML, XML-FO and PDF  
> renderings too... I'll fix the subversion repository tomorrow so  
> others can get in on the action.
>
> If you do plan to contribute though, please bear in mind that I am  
> making personal contributions available under CC-BY-SA in addition  
> to the standard OGF terms which I consider far too restrictive. I'd  
> very much rather other editors follow my example so as the spec is  
> not inextricably bound to any single organisation, as is customary  
> for other cloud APIs (e.g. GoGrid, Sun Cloud API).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>
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