OpenStack Essex Design Summit

The goal of this session is to discuss and agree on the improvements that should be made to Quantum API for the Essex release. Improvement to Quantum API should be aimed at making it easier for client applications to consume the API itself. Potential improvements include: - Concept of "operational status" for resource in order to accomodate asynchronous behaviour by plugins - Provide the capability of specifying filters on API requests - Support paginated collections on responses - Provide ATOM links to resources on response (Also make them permanent and version-independent) - Add a Rate Limiting middleware layer