73. The method in claim 70 , wherein if said peer-to-peer communication of updated Consolidation Strings is delayed due to network or system outage, then said updated Consolidation Strings are queued as messages to be communicated as soon as the affected systems are restored.
70. The method in claim 64 , wherein said Inter-Node Consolidation is set up by communicating updated Consolidation Strings to another data-source node in a peer-to-peer fashion.