[Twisted-Python] clustering or process group replication

[Ian Duggan]

What would be the steps involved in integrating a few of the various protocols 
involved here. Is there a chance of having a common API, or do the "large 
blocks on the internet" variants need something different than something 
optimized for "small blocks on the lan". 

I don't have a really good notion of all these things, but I'm considering 
trying to integrate the spread.org stuff into twisted to achieve clustering 
of servers into a logical virtual server, for redundancy. There might be a 
simpler way to do the same thing. I'm still exploring.

Does anyone know of an example API for integrating several of the protocols 
into the same framework? How do these types of protocols break down into 
categories? 

--Ian