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Unresolved

Fixing the device name for the external interface

The statement found in the text describing the interface sub-entity in a component descriptor says that it is always assigned to the eth0 device. This makes the definition of the interface external: ... syntax construct Linux-specific. Also, in Linux it isn't a requirement that an interface of that name exists, either - I, for one, have a setup with a single network interface named ath0.

Global failover group IDs

The failover group ID defined in this specification is global to the application. This may cause conflicts if it is used in instantiable assemblies that are located in a catalog - possibly making unrelated components to avoid each other unnecessarily if the same ID was used in two different assemblies without intent to make the components in them belong to the same failover group. A safer alternative may be to make the failover group IDs local to an assembly.