Hi all, I had a conversation with Adrian from jClouds on Thursday regarding OCCI and jClouds. During the discussion, the important issue of location and the provisioning of services arose. Currently jClouds are investigating the enhancement of a Location API and would really appreciate input from us folks here in OCCI. If any of us OCCI peeps are interested, have a look at the mail thread here [1]. You can find more detail on the draft changes here [2]. What Adrian is proposing is certainly richer that what we had originally discussed in an OCCI context. Originally we had, what was then, a set of Location Kinds that could be applied to a service request (1 or more VMs). With a location Kind supplied with a provisioning request, the implementation would then deploy the service instance within the correct location. Currently, we now have an even richer mechanism, Mixins, that I believe could easily mirror the proposed draft modifications [2] to jClouds, with these Mixins, hence locations, being discoverable from the query interface. What do people think? What would you like to see in a Location API? Andy [1] http://groups.google.com/group/jclouds-dev/browse_thread/thread/3594bffb4743 028f [2] http://www.slideshare.net/jclouds/jclouds-powertools-london/31 ------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Ireland Limited (Branch) Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland Registered Number: E902934 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.