Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/nova-networking-floatingip.

Description:

Currently my heat template works with AWS resource type:

   DatabaseIPAddress:
     Type: AWS::EC2::EIP
   DatabaseIPAssoc :
     Type: AWS::EC2::EIPAssociation
     Properties:
       InstanceId: {Ref: BaseInstance}
       EIP: {Ref: MyIPAddress}

Now if i want to change to OpenStack ( OS ) namespace with a similar
implementation :

   MyIPAddress:
     Type: OS::Neutron::FloatingIP
Properties:
floating_network_id : String
   MyIPAssoc :
     Type: OS::Neutron::FloatingIPAssociation
     Properties:
       floatingip_id : {Ref: MyIPAddress}

I cannot problem is,

a) floating_network_id ( is not known ) which is a required property.
b) Even if its available / defaults to, its an overhead from AWS
simplicity.

Lets have OS::Nova::FloatingIP resource created that can mirror the functionality of AWS::EC2::EIP

Specification URL (additional information):

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/018450.html