Brad Chapman wrote: > > > 1a- BL's authenticate DL's for applying XML into > > the processing engine. > > 1b- The 1st DL loggin into the BL is automatically > > the 'root' DL, > > and has the ability to grant other DL's > > access. > > 1c- Other DL's (local and remote) can connect via > > CORBA after > > the root DL has granted them access. Okay, how many fronts (GUI's) per DL are we talking about here? One or more? > > 1d- DL's can connect to multiple BL's. By means of the DL layer again? Or directly? > > 1e- BL nodes (or: VSH subnets) can communicate > > with other BL nodes > > only if both nodes have the same parent > > DL. Meaning the BL nodes are local? > > 2a- a DL authenticates other DL's for access to > > its nodes\subnets. > > 2b- DL's can connect to other DL's and > > upload\download XML > > documents outof and into. > > 2c- No DL can connect to the root DL, so no > > non-root DL has ability 2a. I don't get it. If the root DL is the first to connect, how can another DL connect? Nothing can connect to the root DL. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+