[sophacles]

So how does having a protocol standard state value, lets say a uuid, rather than a cookie with a bunch of keys, one of which is a uuid, change things? Well first, we can now disassociate valuable private data from a session identifier. Second, we can now have the http routers point session ids to specific servers, allowing a level of "on box" caching per app server, allowing faster lookups without needing to hit memcache-type things, just poll the local state cache first.