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> On Nov 5, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> 
> Monty Taylor wrote:
>> [...]
>> What if we added support for serving vendor data files from the root of a primary URL as-per RFC 5785. Specifically, support deployers adding a json file to .well-known/openstack/client that would contain what we currently store in the openstacksdk repo and were just discussing splitting out.
>> [...]
>> What do people think?
> 
> I love the idea of public clouds serving that file directly, and the user experience you get from it. The only two drawbacks on top of my head would be:
> 
> - it's harder to discover available compliant openstack clouds from the client.
> 
> - there is no vetting process, so there may be failures with weird clouds serving half-baked files that people may blame the client tooling for.
> 
> I still think it's a good idea, as in theory it aligns the incentive of maintaining the file with the most interested stakeholder. It just might need some extra communication to work seamlessly.

I’m thinking out loud here but perhaps a simple linter that a cloud provider can run will help them make sure that everything is functional. 

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> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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