Wouldn't this be a nice showcase for the technologies around ZEO ? I guess the technologies necessary for a real distributed server network are 'not yet there', but (I am not able to browse the fishbowl pages ;-) I think fishbowl proposals are talking about these kinds of things.
I think it would be more or less trivial (apart from setting up the necessary SSL tunnel for the ZEO connection) to have another front-end server here in Europe or elsewhere. This server would normally be in sync with the U.S., and if it used another domain/nameserver, it would also be safe from things like the OSDN router debacle last week. If the main ZEO server went down, our mirror would just have to go into "read-only" mode (to make this work, the cache would have to be filled with the complete data set of the server, not just the frequently requested stuff, from time to time, and the timeout would have to be set to "very long"). It could even store changes in a queue and transfer them back to the main server if the connection re-establishes. Both is not too difficult to accomplish as far as I know. Any feedback from the ZEO gurus at DC? Joachim