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Christopher B Ferris wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts. As for the EC2 v OpenStack APis, the EC2 API can be stripped out, leaving all functionality of nova
> unimpaired. If the same could be true of the AWS Cloud Formation structures, it would make the project easier to consume 
> for those with persnickety legal departments.

Indeed, Heat would basically be the first OpenStack project to adopt a
third-party API as its main API (rather than introducing an
OpenStack-specific API that lets us in control of the features we can
expose).

The arguments of why we need an OpenStack Compute API rather than just
adopting the AWS EC2 API can probably be made just the same for Heat...

I expect this to become a critical point in the discussion.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Chair, OpenStack Technical Committee