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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Andy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for this work. OCCI is an interesting and open option as the world moves towards federated clouds. I hope that this will continue the momentum towards
an open API which can address multiple backend IaaS solutions transparently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tim Bell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@lists.launchpad.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michel Drescher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16 April 2012 18:00<br>
<b>To:</b> Edmonds, AndrewX<br>
<b>Cc:</b> openstack@lists.launchpad.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack] Open Cloud Computing Interface Blueprint Implementation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Andy, all,<br>
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There is little left to say for me (thanks to others) but a wholeheartedly "Bravo!" on the effort.<br>
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As Matteo and others have stated, it is important to have a publicly defined standard being implemented in production grade software. But much more important, certainly from an EGI perspective, is the availability of *choice* of implementation for anyone who
wishes to operate a Cloud platform. <br>
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For us at EGI it is of particular importance as we are working towards a production level federation of IaaS Cloud offerings, as a federation cannot prescribe which particular software implementation to operate. With the availability of OCCI in OpenStack, we
now are in the place to actually see our endorsement for OCCI to happen in in reality rather on paper.<br>
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What's more, native support for OCCI particularly makes the choice for OpenStack attractive, as this means not only less operative service management effort for a fronting proxy service (I hope!), but also, lets say, less opportunity for configuration and operation
mistakes. :-)<br>
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Cheers, and thanks again,<br>
Michel<br>
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