[occi-wg] Incorporating units into OCCI

[Gary Mazz]

Just as an fyi, media folks work in "bits"

-gary


Andre Merzky wrote:
> Quoting [Sam Johnston] (May 26 2009):
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>>>   a 4th option, which i rather prefer since the units stuff tends to be
>>>   relevant to and consumed by humans via UI rather than machines via API,
>>>   is not to use units at all.
>>>   <memory>2147483648</memory>
>>>   either of the above is far easier to transform to and from non-XML
>>>   representations, in my experience, with the latter being zero effort.
>>>   a couple extra bytes won't harm us and we adhere to my first
>>>   engineering rule: the best solution to a problem is not to have it in
>>>   the first place.
>>>       
>>    Andy and I spent a few hours on the phone tonight getting ourselves
>>    aligned and this was basically the conclusion we came to as well
>>    (though we were talking about choosing e.g. megabytes for memory,
>>    gigabytes for disk and gigahertz for processors). 
>>     
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> I think that is a great compromise: simple format, + human
> readable.
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> Andre.
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