This document is a ``shopping list'' of things we'd like to be able to do with ARK stuff; it reflects stuff we just haven't done yet, or that we don't know how to do at all...

The casual ARK user can ignore this.

Each host's password file includes entries only for users entitled to use that host.
Some of a host's configuration may depend on its network state (e.g. connected vs disconnected).
Need to ``give away'' control of some of the configuration to others.
Each proto-host is basically a binary assertion about a host. Could parameterizing make things simpler? E.g. instead of proto-hosts hpux-amanda-client and hpux-amanda-server, perhaps we could have a proto-host amanda-host(platform,client-or-server)?? (Of course, platform sure looks like the "single descriptor" we were getting away from...)