> I think we can make use of all 3 approaches and choose between none, one and > two brokers, depending on the circumstances. > > Comments please. > Chart 1 is not acceptable for security and management reasons, chart 2 is fine, applications communication just the way they should have done without any system wrapping them, chart 3 is best when the internet had unlimited capacity :) I like to see 2 and a 3b possible, where 3b is Jeffs 3, only the 'gms layer' will try to clone remote nodes to local addres space Any reason why 1 should not be thrown away? bye, jarl