Just a few things that have made appearances in my scatter brain today... - it'd be really cool if the kernel guys could arrive at a "safe" mode for drivers and so on, so that their development could be accelarated. I say this as while I am no fan of Linux they do have some good ideas and have recently added something along these lines which seems to have helped a lot. It'd help us a good deal as well :) - we should have a split architecture, where the bare bones are in the kernel (the really important stuff that needs to go like stink) and the actual protocol stuff done in add-ons. - this means we need to interact closely with the kernel team, and probably the BFS team to a degree as well (due to the fd == pipe ==socket requirement we should impose on ourselves) david