[Fiware-pcc] POINT THAT MUST BE CRISTAL CLEAR ABOUT GEs and the way they will be offered to UC projects

[Juanjo Hierro]

Dear colleagues,

  I would like to make a number of points clear, hoping the issue is not raised again and again:

  *   It has already been discussed many times and decided that FI-WARE GEs are going to be hosted only in the dedicated datacenter facilities linked to the FI-WARE Testbed by default:
     *   Using a set of dedicated VMs for the First Release of FI-WARE.
     *   Relaying on the FI-WARE Cloud that will be available as part of the FI-WARE Testbed for the Second Release of FI-WARE.

  *   This is not just because it is always nice to eat our own dog food, but because we are also asked to go beyond just being able to demonstrate that GEs can run standalone and interoperate.  We are asked to demonstrate that a particular player, who wants to play the role of FI-WARE Instance Provider, is able to create an integrated FI-WARE Instance by means of picking and bundle together a number of products implementing FI-WARE GEs.   Therefore, the FI-WARE Testbed, besides providing an environment for UC projects to test their Proof of Concepts and provide feedback to FI-WARE Developments and Specifications, is there to prove the feasibility of integrating FI-WARE GEs to build a FI-WARE Instance that can be deployed on a number of concrete datacenter nodes operated by a single operator, as a single platform.  Delivering a given FI-WARE GE only as a Service, hosted in facilities provided by the GE owner, raises a lot of questions about the feasibility to build and operate FI-WARE Instances and, therefore, the ability to exploit results of the project.

  *   As consequence of the above:
     *   All FI-WARE GEs have to be made available on the FI-WARE Testbed and offered "as a Service" from there to the UC projects unless explicitly agreed (indeed, the only exceptions to this rule were the Identity Management related GEs, the Location GE and the Cloud Proxy GE, as stated in the FI-WARE Testbed Design deliverable).
     *   We have agreed that there may be some FI-WARE GEs for which there will be instances hosted BOTH in the FI-WARE Tesbed dedicated facilities and in remote facilities, but only with the intend to demonstrate some concrete use cases and provided that the instance located in the FI-WARE Testbed is not delayed (i.e., doesn't get deployed later).
     *   The FI-WARE GEs hosted on the FI-WARE Testbed will be the only ones offered to UC projects for experimentation unless explicitly agreed.
     *   We will not accept justification of any PMs devoted to deploy or support a FI-WARE GE hosted on any infrastructure different than the one linked to the FI-WARE Testbed unless explicitly agreed.

  Best regards,

-- Juanjo



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