[occi-wg] Is OCCI the HTTP of Cloud Computing?

[Alexis Richardson]

Richard,

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Richard Davies <richard at daviesmail.org> wrote:
>
> When the group was set up, I understood that our aim was to quickly write
> down and agree the common core between existing IaaS APIs: Amazon, Sun,
> GoGrid, ElasticHosts, etc.
>
> We've done some work in that direction (the nouns, verbs and attributes),

And this is good.


> but have also proposed a lot which would be going beyond what any/most
> IaaSes have actually implemented to date.
>
> For example: embedding of OVF, proposed extensions such as a search service,
> billing and reporting.

The OVF thing is partly to do with our charter.  But I am not
convinced as to the right course of action *today*.

You could just knock out a codegen to map OVF to JSON ;-)



> We shouldn't be working on these - we should stick to 3 nouns, ~15 verbs,
> ~15 attributes (of which we have a good draft) and should wrap these in the
> simplest possible wire format (e.g. fix actuator URLs for each verb.
> Represent nouns as a single level JSON hash listing the attributes as
> key-value pairs).
>
> See the ElasticHosts application/json format at
> http://www.elastichosts.com/products/api for how simple this can be (or
> equivalently GoGrid, Sun, etc. - though I believe that Sun's JSON has
> unnecessarily deep data structures).
>
> Then we should declare victory and go home!

I assume you have a flight suit to hand ;-)

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