Hey Harold,

I need to think about that last statement. If you look at the movement in robotics away from single brain controlling everything to multiple brains controlling smaller parts with algorithms for communicating with other brains, I'm not sure a 'Single Unifying Framework' is where its at. I understand your not talking about a single hierarchy and your still working with networking principles, but look at the web itself. Used to be that the next gen web was dependent on a single unifying framework (RDF, OWL) but then people got smart and started figuring out how different data, speaking different languages, coming from different frameworks could all somehow still talk to one another and how the 'system' could make sense of it all. The magic of the web now is that there is no single web per se but rather systems that are able to speak to one another.

Not saying right or wrong, just thoughts at this point.