Created Sunday 04 August 2013

“Node” is a generic term for any single, specif-ic virtual location. If domains are the towns and cities of the Grid, nodes are the buildings and even the rooms. Nodes are always within domains, and all nodes within a domain share the same Grid address prefix, as described in Domains, above. Nodes are the most specific, discrete locations in the Grid. Everything within a node can be thought of as being in the same virtual room, and gaining access to a node by getting through its Portal allows a user to ac-cess any files, applications, or other virtual ob-jects within it (although specific items may re-quire Permissions). Domains may have one node or many. Each node has its own Grid address within the domain, which can be the target of a gridlink and can have its own de-fenses, applications, links, and so on. Shadows must be in the same node to see, speak or at-tack one another without special applications or abilities.