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Re:Gaia-X: Technical Architecture [pdf] by blopeur on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:29AM (#23446292)
From the doc: "GAIA-X itself does not act as a billing provider or clearing house. But GAIA-X will define standard interfaces and mechanisms for metering to be used by the Consumers and Providers. "

Yea.. so basically you have a catalogue but it's going to be up to the consumers or providers to find a way to stitch up a clearinghouse solution for dynamically orchestrated services from a multitude of providers. This is not only hard. It's near impossible. Without this crucial element, the platform is stillborn.

Re:Gaia-X: Technical Architecture [pdf] by orwin on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:22PM (#23449944)
I don't think its like that. My understanding is that they will create a catalog with multiple services you can choose, and service provider will provide an unified API for those.

So you can take your prototype build on a server in $european_country_1 and publish it on the cloud of $european_country_2 once the dev is done without any change except the billing address.

If this is what you propose, this will be yet another stillborn project (Hey AI4EU!)