Jeff wrote: > So that is your summary for the web? Well... it wasn't meant to be :-) That was just a discussion topic that led from my original summary, which Jarl correctly pointed out was waaaaay to vague in how communication between remote vsh implementations should occur. It seemed to me the plan is pretty controversial since it proposes that all remote communication occur through the definition layer (the middle scripting layer) and not at the level of node processing. It was based on my attempts (probably failed) to learn about methods for implementing distributed systems based on Jarl's suggestion that all remote note authentication should occur in the definition layer. The proposal is basically derived from some systems I read about where the corba/distributed layer was implemented separately from the layers that do the actual work (the processing layer in our case). I tried to adapt it to the vsh setup. In addition, since this system would probably require a multithreaded server in the definition layer (to deal with possibly simultaneous communication with the processing layer and multiple remote implementations), this proposal led me to worry about using ORBit for all our communication. But if no one wants to voice any objects to the plan (and Jarl even said it was worth trying out :) that I guess it might as well be the basis of part of the summary for the web :-) Brad