Terminology questions - behaviors, shells, and possibly reductions

[hassila (Joakim Hassila)]

@ktoso

Right! Now in retrospect I realize our naming there in the initial pitch must have been quite confusing.

I originally thought to avoid the phrase "actor system" since even the local actors are in colloquial terms an actor system -- it's simply a group of actors doing things together. You're not the only reviewer which got mislead by this, so I think moving forward we'll be calling this component protocol DistributedActorSystem since that's what it is responsible for really, just the distributed actors.

Indeed it is the piece that contains transport, serialization, and anything it needs to resolve and manage those actors for the purpose of distribution.

+1 for that - I think many people (myself included) makes the assumption that it would be a pure transport layer - naming does help in understanding (cf. the discussion about 'Date'...).