[occi-wg] Format 1: Wire format or abstract model

[Richard Davies]

Thijs has asked me to split out the four decisions into separate e-mail
threads, hoping to separate the discussion of each independent question.
So here goes - please try to separately your replies to each question and
reply to the appropriate threads:


Decision 1: Should OCCI specify wire format(s) or an abstract model:
a) The OCCI API will be defined in terms of a specific rendering of the
   nouns, verbs and attributes to the actual bytes transferred on the wire.
b) The OCCI API will be defined in terms of the abstract model (both nouns,
   verbs and attributes, and possibly also meta-model around these). Any
   implementation of this model is OCCI-compliant, regardless of the bytes
   on the wire.

Perspective of myself and Alexis: OCCI should specify wire format(s), since
this is the only way to guarantee in-practice interoperability between
OCCI-compliant clouds.