Distribution tag (was Re: [ticker-dev] A more personal welcome...)

[Julian Boot]

Bill Segall wrote:

> 'Distribution'
> 
> I think that it would be desirable to have a field that acts a hint for
> distribution across federations. Possible values might include: { local,
> organization, world, secure, classified } etc. This is badly thought out at
> the moment but I was hoping that by raising it others might have
> suggestions ...

this seems like producer specified routing and goes against the content
based routing of elvin.  if you want to limit distribution, i'd be
more interested in looking at the interaction of local tickertape messages
with a adminstratively controlled gateway and the use of keys to enforce
policy.

-J