[Vrs-development] Scalability

[Chris Smith]

I ment to mention last week about scaling in the VRS.

It was always intended that the VRS would be of a finite size (of 2+ LDS's).  
Which LDS's were part of a VRS was contolled by the 'VRS administrator' - 
Thus Bill and I saw no problems with the finite Domain handling of Goldwater.

I think the 'finite size' requirement of the VRS might not have been picked 
up in discussions everyone else has been having....

[However, I've looking beyond this in terms of Goldwater as an application, 
and been keeping an open mind wrt having Goldwater handle receive-and-forward 
requests... and I'm still thinking about this.  This *might* (no promises) 
allow Goldwater to route messages to Domains to which it is not directly 
connected, using a multi-hop... but it relies on the application to know 
where it wants to send the message....]

chris

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