<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A fast reply where others will expand further (I hope):<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 15, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Doug Hellmann <<a href="mailto:doug@doughellmann.com" class="">doug@doughellmann.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">My vote is the following:<br class=""><br class="">GET /capabilities <-- returns a set of *actions* or *abilities* that the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">user is capable of performing<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Does this relate in any way to how DefCore already uses "capabilities”?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Only a bit, and not in a way I’d be deeply concerned about.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The Interoperability Working Group (née DefCore) points to a specific Tempest test which asserts that a service has a “capability” and determines if that capability is “core,” thus required to be provided in this way in order to claim that the underlying cloud is an OpenStack cloud.</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="">GET /traits <-- returns a set of *adjectives* or *attributes* that may<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">describe a provider of some resource<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">+1 for where this is going.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—j</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>