On 07/23/2010 01:27 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > What I think we need to protect is API compliance and to ensure that > we can reimplement a service on our own as a replacement if the > external service goes up in smoke for some reason. Which means we need > services with documented stable APIs and we need to identify an > existing open codebase that we can rebuild into a replacement service > that conforms to the APIs we make use of in any 3rd party service > provider we choose to rely on.. but not necessarily the same codebase > that the 3rd party service provider is running. Since you generalized from "search engines" to "web services", I feel the need to outline another case which goes beyond search engines: access to our own data. Supposedly for example we use a web service for hosting and sharing images and that service goes down in flames. We can replace it with another solution, maybe a Free and self-hosted, but our data "in the cloud" was already lost, is too late. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
