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Khanh-Toan Tran <khanh-toan.tran at cloudwatt.com> wrote on 10/29/2013 
09:10:00 AM:
> ...
> 1) Member of a group is recursive. A member can be group or an 
> instance. In this case there are two different declaration formats 
> for members, as with http-server-group-1 ("name, "policy", "edge") 
> and Http-Server-1 ("name", "request_spec", "type"). Would it be 
> better if group-typed member also have "type" field to better 
> interpret the member? Like policy which has "type" field to declare 
> that's a egde-typed policy or group-typed policy.

I have no strong opinion on this.

> 2) The "edge" is not clear to me. It seems to me that "edge" is just
> a place holder for the edge policy. Does it have some particular 
> configuration like group members (e.g. group-typed member is 
> described by its "member","edge" and "policy", while instance-typed 
> member is described by its "request_spec") ?

Yes, an edge is just a way to apply a policy to an ordered pair of groups.

> 3) Members & groups have policy declaration nested in them. Why is 
> edge-policy is declared outside of edge's declaration?

I agree, it would be more natural to write an edge's policy references 
inside the edge object itself.

Thanks,
Mike
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