Bond Connect also promises to tackle the problem of having millions of thinly-traded securities by allowing investors to trade portfolios of different bonds that, bundled together, have the characteristics the investor wants.
Much of the problem is that older circuit-switched networks were designed for one purpose: to connect two callers by opening up a dedicated line between them.
The problem for broadband users is that relatively few homes have the home network needed to connect both a PC and a handful of other devices to a single cable modem or digital subscriber line.
Stoos Connect will be an opportunity to recognize that over the course of the year the global understanding of the problem that we are dealing with has broadened and deepened, both within and beyond the Stoos movement.
But we still face a problem as old as democracy itself: how to get ordinary citizens to pay attention to information and connect candidates to policy positions.