Chris, Good to see I'm not the only one working [early] Sunday mornings :) On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> wrote:

I'm happy with any reasonable choices here, except that to avoid an ugly API, whatever set of words we pick should be single shortish words (not multiple words, and preferably not abbreviations) of a grammatically equivalent type:

compute, storage, networking

work, as do

{computers,guests,instances,servers,machines}, {stores,drives}, networks

but mixing between the groups is less good---I can create 'a drive' or 'a computer' but not 'a compute'. Whatever happens, we don't want to leave an illiterate legacy like HTTP's ghastly 'Referer:' header!

The *resources* themselves that we are managing are compute/storage/network, but if you take a look at the registries<http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/Registries>you will see that I have sub-types: TypeSub-typeDescription computephysical-machinePhysical machine compute virtual-machineVirtual machine computesliceVirtual private server, container, zone, etc. networkphysical-networkPhysical network segment networkvirtual-networkVirtual network segment networkload-balancerLoad balancer device storagedriveHard disk drive storagesnapshotA snapshot of a storage resource at a point in time Hope that helps. Sam