Alexis, This is an important distinction, thank you for highlighting and explaining. Like Randy, my personal goals for OCCI are almost entirely for interop. Today every cloud provider invents their own API to cover essentially identical functionality, and every cloud customer or tools vendor integrates independently with every cloud provider (c.f. Alexis' old employer CohesiveFT integrating with Amazon, FlexiScale, ElasticHosts, Sun, etc.) If all we get out of OCCI is an interoperable API which multiple cloud providers actually adopt, then I would consider that a massive win for the customers and the ecosystem and hence for the cloud providers themselves. I believe that making this interoperable API as minimal as possible will speed adoption and make it more likely that different implementations actually interoperate. Cheers, Richard. Use case: http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/SingleTechnic...