[1] The CIMI standard is defined and published by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
[5] CIMI is scoped to the core IaaS functionality such as deploying and managing Machines, Volumes, Networks, Monitoring, and Systems that group them.
CIMI currently supports the REST architectural style using HTTP for all interactions between the Consumer and the Providers.
[3] This protocol binding follows REST principles and describes the mapping of HTTP protocol verbs to operations on the model: Each request is sent by using an HTTP verb such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, and includes a message body in either JSON or XML format.
Each response uses a standard HTTP status code, whose semantics are interpreted in the context of the particular request that was made.