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[Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/18/2011 02:30 AM, ksankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Couple of points:
> a)    We do need a North-facing interface that supports headless
> operation incl billing, reporting and so forth

I will work on that.

> b)    IMHO, REST APIs are better than SOAP interfaces

My understanding is that EC2 has both REST and SOAP. Do you think it's
ok to have both again for this kind of API?

> c)    Also JSON might be a good choice
> d)    There are already other cloud APIs available like the vCloud, OCCI
> et al. OCCI might fit your requirements. We really do not want to yet
> another cloud API with it's own programming model, if possible.

Thanks for that, I'll have a look in that too.

Thomas