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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello,</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS">A few us at IBM studied Steve Baker's proposal on HOT Software Configuration</font><font size="2" color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS">. Overall the proposed </font><font size="2" color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS">constructs and syntax are great -- we really like the clean syntax and concise specification of components. We would like to propose a few minor extensions that help with better expression of dependencies among components and resources, and in-turn enable cross-vm coordination. We have captured our thoughts on this on the following Wiki page </font><br>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat/Blueprints/hot-software-config-ibm-response"><font size="2" face="serif">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat/Blueprints/hot-software-config-ibm-response</font></a><font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial Unicode MS"><br>
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<font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial Unicode MS">We would like to discuss these further ... please post your comments and suggestions.</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial Unicode MS">Thank you,</font><br>
<font size="2" color="#2F2F2F" face="Arial Unicode MS">LN</font><br>
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Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana<br>
Research Staff Member<br>
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center<br>
<a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/person/us-lrengan">http://researcher.ibm.com/person/us-lrengan</a><br>
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