WRT (1) - another interesting question would be the deployment behavior of a domain. So if it actually makes sense to have something like local deployments. In the end we want to enable users to manage a domain of 100 nodes, why would you care about a local deployment on a single instance? I mean what are the expectations of manageability of such a deployment? e.g. is deploy/ going to be "farmed" when connected to a management domain by default or not?