If you believe that that's true, then we should get Amazon to redefine the EC2 spec to match the reality of what's in the field.
Ewan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Soren Hansen [mailto:so...@linux2go.dk] > Sent: 08 July 2011 05:40 > To: Ewan Mellor > Cc: Thorsten von Eicken; openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - > Is it worth the effort? > > 2011/7/8 Ewan Mellor <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com>: > >> The whole point of supporting the EC2 API is to support people's > >> existing tools and whatnot. If we follow the spec, but the clients > >> don't work, we're doing it wrong. > > True enough. However, in the case where we've got a demonstrated > divergence from the spec, we should report that against the client. I > agree that we want to support pre-existing tools, but it's less clear > that we want to support _buggy_ tools. > > We do. We have to. We have no way to know what sort of clients people > are using. We can only attempt to check the open source ones, but > there's likely loads of other ones that people have built themselves > and never shared. Not only do people have to be able, motivated and > allowed to change their tools to work with OpenStack, they also need > to *realise* that this is something that needs to happen. We can't > assume the symptoms they'll experience even gives as much as a hint > that the ID's they're getting back is too long. They may just get a > general error of some sort. > > If we a) expect people to consume the EC2 API we expose, and (more > importantly) b) expect ISP's to offer this API to their customers, it > needs to be as close to "just another EC2 region" as possible. > > > If Amazon turn out to be resistant to fixing that problem, then we'll > obviously have to accept that and move on, but we should at least give > them a chance to respond on that. > > Amazon is not the problem. At least not the only problem. I'm not even > going to begin to guess how many different tools exist to talk to the > EC2 API. > > -- > Soren Hansen | http://linux2go.dk/ > Ubuntu Developer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ > OpenStack Developer | http://www.openstack.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
