Comment #1 on issue 42 by jmacau...@gmail.com: Query details and summary http://code.google.com/p/ogf-nsi-project/issues/detail?id=42 I am not sure I understand your comment "none of the information requires a recursive query"? Directly adjacent child NSA only have a summary view of their connection state and direct child connections. They do not have a view of three levels below. Also, the directly adjacent child NSA can only make policy decisions on connection information for it's internal state machine and not any children further down the tree. For this reason we added the recursive query so that each NSA in the connection path can do a policy evaluation and return connection information only if it approves the user having access to it.