All, IMO $Subject. It's not correct to have a scope. In my view expectation of a Partition can be "I want my instances in *EC2* IaaS and in *us-east-1*region".
<partition id="p1">
<property name="PROVIDER" value="ec2"/>
<property name="REGION" value="us-east-1"/>
....
</partition>
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Nirmal
Nirmal Fernando.
PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos,
Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
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