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Questions? Answers!
An assortment of questions (and answers) - most of which probably should be moved somewhere more useful and in context, over time.
Q: What is a "bridge"?
The Really Small Message Broker documentation refers to the concept of a “bridge” (not covered in the MQTT specification directly).
This is a simple concept. A bridge allows incoming, outgoing or bidirectional topics to be shared (depending on the broker implementation). They are just one broker connecting to another broker as a client. The second broker doesn't know that there is a broker on the other end, it just talks “normal” MQTT with it.
Q: mosquitto's mount_point option simplifies large layered systems using hierarchical bridges. Are their plans to incorporate mount_points into the MQTT protocol?
I think this is beyond the scope of the protocol - a broker implementation specific detail