Open Stack

> On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Rob Hirschfeld <rob at zehicle.com> wrote:
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> On 06/18/2015 07:43 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>> ... bit of a step from being reflective towards influencing what folks _Should_ be doing. Agree - excellent topic fo mid-cycle. 
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> From an interop perspective, it's part of our charter.  Some API differences are reasonable to absorb but we need to find a way to get ahead of the current sprawl and drive it back towards convergence.  The goal of DefCore was to create carrots and sticks.

We need to be willing and able to use the sticks. I truly don’t mind a cloud
provider implementing proprietary or non-standard extensions, but I do
mind calling that cloud OpenStack if it doesn’t play well with others.