Re: CA WAN/gateway extensions notes

[mcgehee@noao.edu]

Marty Kraimer writes,

> We (accelerator controls) could define records to link to all accelerator PVs
> needed by the users. A user connects to one of these records rather than to
> the actual IOC containing the PV to be monitored/controlled. No matter how
> many users connect to the beam line ioc, the number of channel access
> clients connected to the rest of the control network will not change. The

	We think this is great idea and want to bring up a related issue:

	How do we implement this _without_ doubling our PV name space? This
seems to require that the gateway IOC have its own name space that reflects
the PV names is use by the real-time IOCs. If there were a way of 
rendering this transparent OR by allowing CA to include the IOC name/address
in the PV name this could reduce the maintenance issues.

Aloha,
	Peregrine