The document discusses extending the OCCI API with monitoring capabilities. It proposes adding two new types: Collector and Sensor. The Collector would be a link that extracts operational parameters from a source resource and delivers them to a target resource. The Sensor would be a resource that processes or aggregates output from one or more Collectors, such as by filtering, interpolating, or combining monitoring data. Plugins would provide different options for parameters, transport methods, and ways to aggregate and process data.