Re: Cloud computing query ...

On 7 Jan 2010, at 3:09 AM, Russell Potter wrote:

> I'm currently in the planning stage of writing an
> application needing use the services of a
> cloud computing framework (such as AWS)
> and, although requests to these services are
> performed using XML-over-HTTP, the URL
> and schema of the requests are still proprietary ...
>
> Since I'm not aware of the existence if a stan-
> dardised interface for calling cloud services
> (perhaps a "CloudML"), and the existence of
> such a standardised mark-up language would
> greatly simplify these types of tasks, I was
> hoping you could tell me if the W3C is currently
> working in thus area at all and, if so, that you
> might give me URL of any available documen-
> tation


Hi Russell,

I'm not aware of any work within W3C on a markup language. Having said  
that, we've been talking about this topic lately (though nothing is  
planned).

  _ Ian
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