[occi-wg] Future OCCI extensibility: compute, storage, network, service, application

[Alexis Richardson]

Sam,

We are not doing billing until we get the basics to work.

alexis


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Alexis Richardson
> <alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is absolutely right.
>>
>> Billing etc are not in scope.  If we can get the basics agreed on
>> (compute, storage, network), then billing will become something we can
>> talk about.
>
> This view, while seemingly justifiable, is rather short-sighted. Further, by
> putting the blinkers on now we are encouraging others (e.g. SNIA) to do the
> same. Given our place at the head of the cloud computing timeline we'd be
> basically marching everyone towards a corpse-littered battleground of
> standards - I've not heard a single coherent argument as to why this would
> not be the case and how this is any different from the myriad blikered and
> often competing efforts of WS-*.
>
> I agree billing is not in scope now, but it is a pain point that is of a
> high priority so it will be in scope before long - once problems are solved
> focus changes quickly and we need to be able to adapt.
>
> Sam
>
>