Morning all,<br><br>I wanted to write to you quickly to clarify a few random but important points following my having been accused of &quot;fraud and negligence&quot;, &quot;misrepresentation&quot;, &quot;anarchy&quot; and various other unsavoury things in (mostly) off-list threads.<br>



<ul><li>I have no agenda beyond making open cloud a reality. Before you go accusing me of anything take a second to remind yourself that I represent enterprise end users, don&#39;t have a &quot;horse in this race&quot; and ultimately just want to deliver the highest quality API possible, as soon as possible so we have something to &quot;sell&quot;. My only vested interest is that I&#39;ve now spent well over €100,000 of my own time into OCCI and want to see it a success.<br>



</li><li>I&#39;ll do whatever it takes to make it happen, but I don&#39;t plan to <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/SAP-India-MD-Ranjan-Das-death-shocks-industry/articleshow/5147014.cms" target="_blank">die trying</a>. Recently I&#39;ve been working through 03h38 every day (when the Internet at the company apartment goes down for a multiple-hour reboot) and am at it again before 7. What that means is that you can expect me to be somewhat more zen going forward - if you troll I&#39;ll treat you like a troll and likely encourage others to do the same. Same applies if you present arguments that cannot be proven or disproven, dodge the point, or otherwise fail to take us forward.<br>
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<li>Nothing has been &quot;publicly represented as unilaterally adopted by this group&quot; and likely nothing will be for some time to come. Whenever I talk about our work in public I use terms like &quot;the current thinking&quot; or &quot;my preferred approach&quot;. You should do the same until *at least* such time as we have a complete draft which has been accepted by the group and submitted to the OGF pipeline for public comment.<br>
</li><li>While &quot;informally consensus is considered to be the absence of sustained intense reasonable resistance&quot;, there can be no consensus if there is no proposal. We&#39;re working slightly differently from the IETF, where contributors work alone or in small groups to develop Internet-Drafts which are then refined by committee, but we need to be able to work efficiently and quickly and don&#39;t have the resources (e.g. time) to discuss every point in detail.</li>
<li>We don&#39;t vote. We&#39;re not a membership organisation and anyone can join at any time - as such it is impossible to hold &quot;fair&quot; ballots like our more traditional counterparts such as DMTF (where a $12k membership gets you a vote that is very valuable in terms of influencing the outcome).</li>
<li>We&#39;re open and transparent so unless you have a damn good reason for taking/keeping your topic off-list then please resist the urge to do so. If you do have something (e.g. your identity) that you want to keep secret then I&#39;ll respect your privacy but don&#39;t be surprised if I ask you if it really needs to stay off-list (yes, I&#39;ll ask first).<br>
</li><li>Instead we seek consensus which means we thrash out issues on the list with a view to finding the best way forward. Try to keep the discussions focused and provided this is done properly we won&#39;t have to revisit decisions. The chairs act as umpires, calling the consensus where necessary, and there is an escalation path through the OGF channels (which I hope we won&#39;t have to use).<br>
</li><li>I&#39;m busy pulling information and ideas from many sources to create a sufficiently complete proposal as to allow us to *start* building consensus. If there is some aspect you don&#39;t like then the single best way to be heard is to prepare a &quot;camera ready&quot; alternative *yourself* and explain specifically and in detail why it&#39;s superior. That is to say, if you want something done and know how to do it then you have both the motive and means to do it yourself. I don&#39;t have to like your idea for it to achieve consensus but I&#39;m not a &quot;work for hire&quot; resource for realising ideas I don&#39;t agree with.</li>
</ul>As always I am available to discuss whatever&#39;s concerning you; OCCI, the process, getting involved, accessing the repository, the weather... both on- and off-list, by phone/skype/chat, as you want, generally between 7am and midnight CEST.<br>
<br>Anyway I&#39;ve got to go get me one of these Magic Mouses as my trackpad just died a day out of warranty, but after that let&#39;s get back to work.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Sam<br><br>