> > Perhaps I could suggest something in the vein of "very important" or
> > "much desired feature"
> 
> This is not the notion that I tried to express, probably badly.  It's not
> necessarily the important feature, it's the one that will make people
> implement and deploy the protocol stack in the first place.

Suggestion for '"killer feature" of Homenet': driver for using Homenet

> > I found the term "bosses" leaving much to interpretation
> 
> This happens to be deliberate.  I am trying to avoid implying too much about
> the organisational structure to which the reader belongs -- the "boss" here
> could be the CIO, but it could be the leader of an Academic project, it could
> be the supervisor of the intern who's implementing Homenet, or it could be
> the Benevolent Dictator for Life of a Free Software project.
> 
> If you find a sufficiently stately term that covers all of the above, I'll 
> take it.
> (My thesaurus suggests "chieftain", but I tend to favour "foreman".)

Suggestion for "our bosses": decision makers
Which applies to all of the example people mentioned, but also spouses, 
significant others, and spoiled children -- who may be more relevant in the 
context of homenet.

Barbara

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