[occi-wg] Incorporating units into OCCI

[Ian Stokes-Rees]

Andre Merzky wrote:
> Oh well...  - you can't make everybody happy.  At the end
> one needs to decide on one of the options, and either way,
> just getting rid of units (by defining them as fixed) seems
> like a good solution.  As others stated: a UI can always
> represent a more suitable version...
>   

We work in different domains, clearly.  For me, and the work I've done 
full time for the past 7 years, and hundreds of other people doing grid 
computing (which I am definitely saying is different from the 
requirements of cloud computing folks) there is a lot of manual creation 
of descriptor files, so "raw" data useability in terms of creation and 
in terms of readability is an important factor.

It would not be unreasonable to have a "basic" and "advanced" profile 
for properties, where basic use a fixed/unitary unit, while "advanced" 
use a type/scale modifier for the units, or support unit conversion.

Designing a standard so it is easy to write JavaScript web pages for it 
doesn't seem like it should be a dominant concern.

Anyway, I only chimed in because someone asked about application of 
units to some of the properties.

Ian