Title: Message Mike, Along the lines of Eilon's question, I'd like to have a better understanding as to what the WSRP Producer Container is for. I confess to not being well-informed on the motivation for introducing this concept in the early interfaces/protocols discussions. My hope has been that it is entirely a WSRP-specific construct, and therefore not something that needs to be accounted for in the joint interface. But I'm not convinced one way or the other, yet. In the interests of furthering this discussion, if you could run down the main points behind the container, for both groups, I think it would be beneficial. I think Mike's outline of the lifecycle interfaces from a pure WSRP perspective, in relation to Gil's and Rich's latest rev of the joint interface specification, represents the clearest illustration yet of the gap we need to close. This is good progress. Alan