[occi-wg] Finished first pass over FeatureMatrix

[Richard Davies]

Hi Sam,

Good work - thanks! I think this is a very good level at which to be
comparing the various APIs, and highlights differences well.

One question - you've said that all public clouds lack enterprise features
vs. VMware, etc. Is it worth adding a VMware column and exposing these extra
features on a few new rows? I can see a few already (request signing,
resource categories and search), but suspect there are others (e.g. role
hierarchies?) and also that someone with a more enterprisey background would
do better than me in adding these.

Cheers,

Richard.

Sam Johnston wrote:
> Morning all,
> 
> I've just finished the first pass of the OCCI FeatureMatrix which
> compares APIs on a functional (rather than per-function) basis. If we want
> to be an implementation candidate for these APIs then we're going to have
> to be capable of exposing as much of the existing functionality as
> possible - which is to say that we're going to end up with something of a
> superset (hence the solid ticks in the OCCI column, except for a few
> things we haven't thought about yet).
> 
> Some of the suggested APIs were dropped because they are not comparable or
> simply don't exist (e.g. Mosso CloudSites). We'll add new rows as
> interesting features are raised and new columns for new APIs.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam