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[Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:

>> If so, then I would say that your proposed limitation above is not acceptable.  We don't want a situation where tenants have to stop using the EC2 API as soon as their service provider wants to offer a rich set of offerings.
> 
> 	That was my working premise, too, but the decision was made within Rackspace to not spend time on EC2 support for zones since we use the OS API exclusively, so my hands were tied.


	Wait, that didn't sound right. What I should have said is that the decision was made within *my team* at Rackspace, not by Rackspace as a whole. Our team's job is to make sure that everything is implemented in nova that we will need to switch our code base, and since the EC2 API isn't one of those things, it was decided not to spend any time on it. That doesn't mean that we wouldn't love someone for whom EC2 compatibility matters to add it in; it just means that it isn't going to be us. ;-)


-- Ed Leafe

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