I started a pretty involved REST implementation (but borrowing a few things fron contrib/rest), complete with heartbeating and a RESTful events resource, which

I started a pretty involved REST implementation (but borrowing a few things fron contrib/rest), complete with heartbeating and a RESTful events resource, which has since stalled as I got busy with other things. I hope to return to it soon. My plan was to increase the tick time quite a bit and use it for global (in the literal sense) service discovery and coordination.