re #1, as I said elsewhere, at youtube we use zkocc to proxy readonly connections to zookeeper, and zkocc supports e.g. bson-over-http (and in any case it would

re #1, as I said elsewhere, at youtube we use zkocc to proxy readonly connections to zookeeper, and zkocc supports e.g. bson-over-http (and in any case it would be easier to add new client protocol support to zkocc than to zookeeper, I think. maybe I just think that because I don't want to java.)