Jarl van Katwijk wrote: > > Like the name already suggest: brokering layer, so the comm. between instances > will be handled by the BL (gms). > > I dont know what is Brad want to build, but it seem to have something to do with > DL specific stuff. Hmmm. Well, Brad says here that it is your idea to have the DL manage authentication between instances: Brad wrote: > 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. Shouldn't the layer that manages authentication also manage communication? Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+