Re: [apps-discuss] service configuration

["Songhaibin (A)" <[e-mail]>]

I'm reading this document.

>From the description below:
" This specification defines a single protocol which will allow for retrieval of a variety of service configuration information in a single call, allowing developers to simplify the coding and user interface in client software, and in particular in multi-function client software such as a combined e-mail and calendar clients. Configuration is retrieved from a single document on a server, improving performance over per-service configuration mechanisms that require multiple network operations."

I think this document is very interesting and useful for client side configuration to communicate with different service providers. But it seems that it is a total different story from what I talked about this morning, especially for the software installation part, where for example, a home user installs a virtual home gateway in the provider's network, and chooses the features(software components) that he wants to install on that virtual gateway. 

For the service configuration part (we both call them service configuration, but we focus on different things), Cyrus's document could be complementary, if the software we moved to the provider's network has requirements to configure it for communication with other service provider servers. But it is also very common the configuration is for other purpose, for example, an enterprise user installs a virtual firewall in the provider's network, then it has to configure it for handling the traffic from/to the enterprise.

BR,
-Haibin

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 4:29 PM
To: Songhaibin (A)
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: service configuration

On 7/29/13 10:03 AM, Songhaibin (A) wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Many thanks for the reference. I will look into the related documents 
> to see whether there are overlaps. I do not want to do duplicate work 
> either.

If you have a chance to review the document from Cyrus this week, you could probably chat with him in person (or with others -- I have been tracking this work and I know several other people who have.

Peter