[occi-wg] Is HTTP the HTTP of cloud computing?

[Roger Menday]

hi Richard

> I thought this idea was interesting, and it was a shame that no one  
> else has
> yet commented on it.

well, i didn't comment on it in this round of discussions, but i did  
comment over lunch on thursday, right (?), and previously on this list

http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/occi-wg/2009-May/000574.html *

so, the current direction is quite encouraging, and despite some minor  
scuffles breaking-out, we are moving forward, IMO.

what i am currently trying to do is to document how Andy's model  
(minus the XSD) can be aligned with the renderings (including  
something demonstrable).

Roger

* that email actually addresses a number of key things we should be  
doing in OCCI



> It is certainly a very minimal rendering, and is also
> one which could work.


>
>> HTML also resolves another pressing issue - what format to use for
>> submitting key-value pairs (which constitutes a large part of what  
>> we need
>> to do with OCCI). It gives us two options:
>
> I certainly agree that simple flat key value pairs are sufficient to
> represent everything that we need to do - the entire EH API uses  
> nothing
> else.
>
>> * application/x-www-form-encoded which is simple but quickly gets
>>  messy with encoding and non-ASCII characters
>
> There is also precedent for sending data in this format - for example
> the Amazon EC2 Query API and also Google Checkout:
> http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_HTML_API_Notification_API.html#HTML_Parameter_Definitions
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard.
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Roger Menday (PhD)
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