On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Nicu Buculei wrote: > 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. > We've discussed this as part of DR, particularly the "what happens if PHX2 blows up" case. -Mike _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
