It is recommended that all hubs be running some kind of UNIX based operating system so that remote access is possible, for gathering statistical information, and tweaking the individual hub. However, the restrictions imposed would be that all these hubs would be running a similar hardware, so there would be no hardware compatibility issues. Main problems would be maintaining a consistent platform setup across all the machines in use but thanks to the wonderful tool of telnet, that can be overcome. Nothing is impossible with the uid of 0 and a telnet accessible machine. This is an idea - of course other members should be adding to this.
Nothing is final or definite.