[pluc]

How would one replicate privately the entire WordPress.org infrastructure, from plugins and theme hosting and updates, core storage and update calls? Can you point to any documentation that would allow WPEngine or any other host to stop using wordpress.org capabilities and keep using WordPress functionality as you are asking WPEngine? How do you envision that affecting plugin and theme authors? Core contributors? "Extend" Stores?

[photomatt]

It's hard, I agree. You'll need to be a good engineer to set it up and host it. But it's very doable. I guess we'll see how good their engineers are.

[pluc]

You think that's very doable in 72hrs? Can you provide documentation? Do you think that's a reasonable delay to do this thing that's never been done before?