Will have to be MAC. URL example is fine. Passing MAC up from networking stack will be painful requiring a custom low-level listener. Implementation will be susceptible to hacking if providers do not enforce MAC addresses at switch/vswitch ports. Alternative is to say that machine-id¹ is always deposited in / or C:\ and has UUID. --Randy On 4/20/09 4:01 AM, "Sam Johnston" <samj@samj.net> wrote:
My proposed solution for this is that the cloud provider simply allow the workload to transparently authenticate to OCCI via its IP/MAC address and/or [virtual] interface. We could use a well known alias like "self" so as the machine can just pull down http://example.com/self (without needing to know its own UUID) and extract from that any state/configuration/introspection/other information it needs.
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