On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
One of the reasons I'm pushing the point is because I'd actually like to be permitted to use the fruits of our labour.
Just to throw a format out there that seems to have been left off the list and yet was designed from the ground up as an efficient data serialization format for decentralized grid/cloud computing, what about Protocol Buffers? I realize that using ProtofBuf in a majority of use cases being discussed on this list would be extreme overkill. But by its very nature, cloud computing tends to encourage the hucking of large amounts of data from one node and from one cloud to the next. In cases such as this where Interop between disparate platforms, systems, languages, etc. come par for the course, and therefore cleanly fit into the OCCI charter, shouldn't considerable thought be put into using the format best suited for the task at hand?