[mrbrowning]

Hey, thanks for asking! My interests in it are primarily for quota management -- in my experience, this is inevitably a hierarchical concern, in that you frequently run into the case of wanting to allot a certain cluster-wide quota to a large organizational unit, and similarly subdivide that quota between smaller organizational subunits. Being able to model that hierarchy with namespaces localizes changes more effectively: if you want to increase the larger unit's quota in a flat namespace world, for example, there's no way to talk about that unit's quota except as the sum of all of its constituent namespace quotas.

[aludwin]

Thanks! We're not currently planning on implementing a hierarchical resource quota in HNC, but HNC is trying to define a definition of hierarchy that could certainly be used to create a HRQ. Give me a shout if you're interested in contributing.