Todd Biske: Outside the Box

James Governor of RedMonk has a post that he claims is the “Most exciting idea in ages: an ATOM/LDAP mashup.“ It’s actually a very interesting idea to me, especially because he suggests applying it to the management domain. I’ve previously posted (here and here) about the convergence of metadata, and how I’ve seen parallels between Service Repository, Configuration Management databases, Asset Management systems, and potentially even LDAP. So, if we’re doing an ATOM/LDAP mashup, is ATOM equally applicable to other items in the metadata management domain. I suspect that it will be. Nearly all management specs I’ve seen have a resource-oriented view, and it would seem that the combination of ATOM and REST could be a very good fit on top of this. Hopefully James will keep us all updated on the progress of this exciting idea.

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