The thing about our slightly more dynamic approach to managing endpoints across the domain that we have now is that we are not precluding any particular approach to managing the domain in general. The domain manager in 1.x is still as relevant now IMHO as a means of managing the contributions in the domain and making them available to the nodes that need them. The way that I look at it is that the set of contributions can either be added to the manager and provided to the nodes or added to the nodes and provided to the (notional) manager.
It all comes down the where we manage the model of the contributions and the relationship between them. Simon
