I'm curious what the impact on overall performance would be if products eventually came into existence that extended Zope to directly handle additional protocols and their data requirements, primarily intended for low-volume workgroup kind of traffic. Jabber, IMAP and LDAP are the ones that come to mind immediately, since you'd be that much closer to having Zope fulfill a role that MS Exchange really doesn't; inexpensive, easily maintained groupware for small organizations that need custom workflow app development. Is it practical to consider that Zope might extend into other protocols this way, and can it be done with modular products, or does integration require deep Zope modifications (beyond adding a few lines to Z2.py?) Just a hypothetical, I guess. FWIW, it would be really cool to see a general, host-a-protocol-here hook for plugin products as Zope3 takes shape, configuration in the ZMI if the product writer goes that far. Something that would define a standard interface for Zope3 events to respond to signals the protocol handler might generate, and vice-versa.