User talk:Zha Ewry/AWG: Desiderata for evaluating the proposed design

In the Plug and proxy models section, it's worth mentioning that the matter of proxies (and caches, which are strongly related) is very important on the distribution/scalability front as well. When a private world machine or small external grid attaches to a large enterprise grid like that of LL, the influx of visitors from large to small would almost always overwhelm the small site in the absence of a proxy and caching mechanism within the large site, as a natural consequence of their relative scales.

Consequently, the concept of proxy needs to be expanded substantially for a scalable distributed world system, ie. to cache external state and to handle much of the object-related traffic that would otherwise all be funnelled out to the small system on every access. Without this, large systems will never be able to connect to small ones in a manner that would satisfy their residents, because the small systems would always be "Slashdotted", to coin a phrase. --Morgaine Dinova 03:34, 24 September 2007 (PDT)