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[Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soren Hansen [mailto:soren@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 July 2011 12:43
> To: Ewan Mellor
> Cc: Thorsten von Eicken; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API -
> Is it worth the effort?
> 
> 2011/7/8 Ewan Mellor <Ewan.Mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > If you believe that that's true, then we should get Amazon to
> redefine the EC2 spec to match the reality of what's in the field.
> 
> What would their motivation be?

The same motivation that they had for publishing the spec in the first place: good compatibility across the various clients means that they are free to improve their server-side implementation within the bounds of the spec.  If they have clients in their ecosystem (whether they wrote them or not) that aren't conforming to the spec, then that harms their future freedom to innovate (in the same way as it's harming us now). 

Ewan.