[occi-wg] Revised the Sun API lightly

[Gary Mazz]

Hi Tim,

I think knowing about other efforts is import and and helps keeps the 
"collective" current.

-gary

Tim Bray wrote:
> Not in a deep way; in response to people worried about administrative  
> control policies.
>
> Here's how it works now: A Virtual Data Center contains a collection  
> of VM templates, a collection of available public IP addresses, and a  
> single Cluster resource.  A Cluster resource contains, along with some  
> actuator URIs, a collection of private networks, a collection of  
> virtual machines, and zero or more child clusters.  The idea is that  
> the general-purpose Cluster grouping resource now acts just like a  
> nested filesystem. Private networks belong to clusters, but only for  
> administrative purposes; they can be attached to any VM in any cluster.
>
> (What's changed?  Previously, clusters didn't nest and private- 
> networks were allocated at the VDC level).
>
> The motivation is, we hear from people, especially private-cloud  
> people, that they want to hand out authorization rights to control  
> particular sets of VMs and private-networks, but not others.  It  
> wasn't obvious how you'd go about doing this.  So now everything that  
> you might reasonably want to control/administer has a primary  
> association to a Cluster object, making that the obvious hook to  
> attach administrative-rights policies.
>
> (If people don't want these FYI posts about parallel work in another  
> API-building effort, say so and I'll shut up).  -Tim
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