[occi-wg] Another proposal on Linking

[Ralf Nyren]

While analyzing the new Link & Linking proposal I went back to where we  
started and tried to see what benefits the proposal would have. Except for  
link attributes through link specialisation I failed to see any real  
benefits. I mean it is indeed tempting to say that a Link is a REST  
resource and therefore we can apply CRUD (POST/GET/PUT/DELETE) operations  
directly on links. But why would we want to do that? A link is not very  
useful on its own and what is it we cannot do with the simpler approach?

Based on this reasoning I wrote up "another proposal" and added to the  
Link & Linking wiki page [1]. It is indeed very simple (but I like  
simple!) and I believe it can do all things we realistically would want to  
do with the Fat Link approach.

I am very much looking forward to your comments.

regards, Ralf

[1] http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Link