On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Jorge Williams wrote:
>> But why do you want to move the Zone code into the extension part ?
>> It's a core part of OpenStack, why it doesn't stay in the core code ?
>
> If something is in core then it's guaranteed to be available always. A
> client should be able to count on the functionality in core for a particular
> version of an API. Zone's offer admin level functionality that may not be
> available to all users. I don't think that Rackspace will expose Zones to
> it's customers right away, for example. By having Zones as an extension a
> client can detect whether zone support is available or not.
It was my understanding that zones would be transparent to the user; in
fact, we went to great pains to ensure that zone information was *not*
available to the user. Clients would not need to detect if zones exist.
-- Ed Leafe
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