diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1eae0cf..5a541bd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 dist/
 node_modules/
+*.swp
+*.swo
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diff --git a/src/.object-layer.ts.swp b/src/.object-layer.ts.swp
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diff --git a/src/collection-layer.ts b/src/collection-layer.ts
index c8e93ee..f0ebf3a 100644
--- a/src/collection-layer.ts
+++ b/src/collection-layer.ts
@@ -2,33 +2,176 @@
 // It should enable operations like removing a property removes the value from the entities in the collection
 // It could then be further extended with e.g. table semantics like filter, sort, join
 
-type Property = {
-  name: string,
-  type: number | string;
-}
 
-class EntityType {
-  name: string;
-  properties?: Property[];
-  constructor(name: string) {
-    this.name = name;
-  }
-}
+import EventEmitter from "node:events";
+import { publishDelta, subscribeDeltas } from "./deltas";
+import { Entity, EntityProperties, EntityPropertiesDeltaBuilder } from "./object-layer";
+import { Delta } from "./types";
+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 
-class Entity {
-  type: EntityType;
-  properties?: object;
-  constructor(type: EntityType) {
-    this.type = type;
-  }
-}
+// type Property = {
+//   name: string,
+//   type: number | string;
+// }
 
-class Collection {
-  entities = new Map<string, Entity>();
+// class EntityType {
+//   name: string;
+//   properties?: Property[];
+//   constructor(name: string) {
+//     this.name = name;
+//   }
+// }
+
+// class Entity {
+//   type: EntityType;
+//   properties?: object;
+//   constructor(type: EntityType) {
+//     this.type = type;
+//   }
+// }
+
+// class Collection {
+  
   // update(entityId, properties)
   // ...
-}
+// }
 
-export class Collections {
-  collections = new Map<string, Collection>();
+// export class Collections {
+//   collections = new Map<string, Collection>();
+// }
+
+
+export class Collection {
+  entities = new Map<string, Entity>();
+  eventStream = new EventEmitter();
+  constructor() {
+    console.log('COLLECTION SUBSCRIBING TO DELTA STREAM');
+    subscribeDeltas((delta: Delta) => {
+      // TODO: Make sure this is the kind of delta we're looking for
+      console.log('COLLECTION RECEIVED DELTA');
+      this.applyDelta(delta);
+    });
+    this.eventStream.on('create', (entity: Entity) => {
+      console.log(`new entity!`, entity);
+    });
+  }
+
+  // Applies the javascript rules for updating object values,
+  // e.g. set to `undefined` to delete a property
+  updateEntity(entityId?: string, properties?: object, local = false, deltas?: Delta[]): Entity {
+    let entity: Entity | undefined;
+    let eventType: 'create' | 'update' | 'delete' | undefined;
+    entityId = entityId ?? randomUUID();
+    entity = this.entities.get(entityId);
+    if (!entity) {
+      entity = new Entity(entityId);
+      entity.id = entityId;
+      eventType = 'create';
+    }
+    const deltaBulider = new EntityPropertiesDeltaBuilder(entityId);
+
+    if (!properties) {
+      // Let's interpret this as entity deletion
+      this.entities.delete(entityId);
+      // TODO: prepare and publish a delta
+      // TODO: execute hooks
+      eventType = 'delete';
+    } else {
+      let anyChanged = false;
+      Object.entries(properties).forEach(([key, value]) => {
+        let changed = false;
+        if (entity.properties && entity.properties[key] !== value) {
+          entity.properties[key] = value;
+          changed = true;
+        }
+        if (local && changed) {
+          // If this is a change, let's generate a delta
+          deltaBulider.add(key, value);
+          // We append to the array the caller may provide
+          // We can update this count as we receive network confirmation for deltas
+          entity.ahead += 1;
+        }
+        anyChanged = anyChanged || changed;
+      });
+      // We've noted that we may be ahead of the server, let's update our
+      // local image of this entity.
+      //* In principle, this system can recreate past or alternative states.
+      //* At worst, by replaying all the deltas up to a particular point.
+      //* Some sort of checkpointing strategy would probably be helpful.
+      //* Furthermore, if we can implement reversible transformations,
+      //* it would then be efficient to calculate the state of the system with 
+      //* specific deltas removed. We could use it to extract a measurement
+      //* of the effects of some deltas' inclusion or exclusion, the
+      //* evaluation of which may lend evidence to some possible arguments.
+     
+      this.entities.set(entityId, entity);
+      if (anyChanged) {
+        deltas?.push(deltaBulider.delta);
+        eventType = eventType || 'update';
+      }
+    }
+    if (eventType) {
+      this.eventStream.emit(eventType, entity);
+    }
+    return entity;
+  }
+  // We can update our local image of the entity, but we should annotate it
+  // to indicate that we have not yet received any confirmation of this delta
+  // having been propagated.
+  // Later when we receive deltas regarding this entity we can detect when
+  // we have received back an image that matches our target.
+
+  // So we need a function to generate one or more deltas for each call to put/
+  // maybe we stage them and wait for a call to commit() that initiates the
+  // assembly and transmission of one or more deltas
+
+  applyDelta(delta: Delta) {
+    // TODO: handle delta representing entity deletion
+    console.log('applying delta:', delta);
+    const idPtr = delta.pointers.find(({localContext}) => localContext === 'id');
+    if (!idPtr) {
+      console.error('encountered delta with no entity id', delta);
+      return;
+    }
+    const properties: EntityProperties = {};
+    delta.pointers.filter(({localContext}) => localContext !== 'id')
+      .forEach(({localContext: key, target: value}) => {
+        properties[key] = value;
+      }, {});
+    const entityId = idPtr.target as string;
+    // TODO: Handle the scenario where this update has been superceded by a newer one locally
+    this.updateEntity(entityId, properties);
+  }
+
+  onCreate(cb: (entity: Entity) => void) {
+    this.eventStream.on('create', (entity: Entity) => {
+      cb(entity);
+    });
+  }
+  onUpdate(cb: (entity: Entity) => void) {
+    this.eventStream.on('update', (entity: Entity) => {
+      cb(entity);
+    });
+  }
+  put(entityId: string | undefined, properties: object): Entity {
+    const deltas: Delta[] = [];
+    const entity = this.updateEntity(entityId, properties, true, deltas);
+    deltas.forEach(async (delta: Delta) => {
+      await publishDelta(delta);
+    });
+    return entity;
+  }
+  del(entityId: string) {
+    const deltas: Delta[] = [];
+    this.updateEntity(entityId, undefined, true, deltas);
+    deltas.forEach(async (delta: Delta) => {
+      await publishDelta(delta);
+    });
+  }
+  get(id: string): Entity | undefined {
+    return this.entities.get(id);
+  }
+  getIds(): string[] {
+    return Array.from(this.entities.keys());
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/deltas.ts b/src/deltas.ts
index 0a6d844..848eff7 100644
--- a/src/deltas.ts
+++ b/src/deltas.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export const deltasRejected: Delta[] = [];
 export const deltasDeferred: Delta[] = [];
 
 export function applyPolicy(delta: Delta): Decision {
-    return !!delta && Decision.Accept;
+  return !!delta && Decision.Accept;
 }
 
 export function receiveDelta(delta: Delta) {
@@ -18,19 +18,19 @@ export function receiveDelta(delta: Delta) {
 }
 
 export function ingestDelta(delta: Delta) {
-    const decision = applyPolicy(delta);
-    switch (decision) {
-        case Decision.Accept:
-            deltasAccepted.push(delta);
-            deltaStream.emit('delta', { delta });
-            break;
-        case Decision.Reject:
-            deltasRejected.push(delta);
-            break;
-        case Decision.Defer:
-            deltasDeferred.push(delta);
-            break;
-    }
+  const decision = applyPolicy(delta);
+  switch (decision) {
+    case Decision.Accept:
+      deltasAccepted.push(delta);
+      deltaStream.emit('delta', { delta });
+      break;
+    case Decision.Reject:
+      deltasRejected.push(delta);
+      break;
+    case Decision.Defer:
+      deltasDeferred.push(delta);
+      break;
+  }
 }
 
 export function ingestNext(): boolean {
diff --git a/src/example-app.ts b/src/example-app.ts
index ff07db4..55a796f 100644
--- a/src/example-app.ts
+++ b/src/example-app.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 
 import express from "express";
 import { bindPublish, } from "./pub-sub";
-import { runDeltas } from "./deltas";
-import { Entities, Entity } from "./object-layer";
+import { deltasAccepted, deltasProposed, runDeltas } from "./deltas";
+import { Entity } from "./object-layer";
+import { Collection } from "./collection-layer";
 import { bindReply, runRequestHandlers } from "./request-reply";
-import { subscribeToSeeds } from "./peers";
+import { askAllPeersForDeltas, subscribeToSeeds } from "./peers";
 import { ENABLE_HTTP_API, HTTP_API_ADDR, HTTP_API_PORT } from "./config";
 
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ type UserProperties = {
 };
 
 class Users {
-  db = new Entities();
+  db = new Collection();
   create(properties: UserProperties): Entity {
     // We provide undefined for the id, to let the database generate it
     // This call returns the id
@@ -47,12 +48,23 @@ class Users {
 }
 
 (async () => {
-  const app = express()
+  const users = new Users();
 
+  const app = express()
   app.get("/ids", (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
       res.json({ ids: users.getIds()});
   });
 
+  app.get("/deltas", (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
+    // TODO: streaming
+    res.json(deltasAccepted);
+  });
+
+  app.get("/deltas/count", (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
+    // TODO: streaming
+    res.json(deltasAccepted.length);
+  });
+
   if (ENABLE_HTTP_API) {
     app.listen(HTTP_API_PORT, HTTP_API_ADDR, () => {
         console.log(`HTTP API bound to http://${HTTP_API_ADDR}:${HTTP_API_PORT}`);
@@ -63,21 +75,30 @@ class Users {
   await bindReply();
   runDeltas();
   runRequestHandlers();
-  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 200));
+  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
   subscribeToSeeds();
-  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 200));
+  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
+  askAllPeersForDeltas();
+  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
 
-  const users = new Users();
+  setInterval(() => {
+    console.log('deltasProposed count', deltasProposed.length,
+      'deltasAccepted count', deltasAccepted.length);
+  }, 5000)
 
   const taliesin = users.upsert({
-    id: 'taliesin-1',
+    // id: 'taliesin-1',
     name: 'Taliesin',
     nameLong: 'Taliesin (Ladd)',
     age: Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000)
   });
 
-  taliesin.onUpdate((u: Entity) => {
-    console.log('User updated', u);
+  users.db.onUpdate((u: Entity) => {
+    console.log('User updated:', u);
+  });
+
+  users.db.onCreate((u: Entity) => {
+    console.log('New user!:', u);
   });
 
   // TODO: Allow configuration regarding read/write concern i.e.
diff --git a/src/object-layer.ts b/src/object-layer.ts
index f7eaadc..0df5a3b 100644
--- a/src/object-layer.ts
+++ b/src/object-layer.ts
@@ -7,15 +7,10 @@
 // - As typescript interfaces?
 // - As typescript classes?
 
-import EventEmitter from "node:events";
 import { CREATOR, HOST } from "./config";
-import { publishDelta, subscribeDeltas } from "./deltas";
 import { Delta, PropertyTypes } from "./types";
-import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 
-const entityEventStream = new EventEmitter();
-
-type EntityProperties = {
+export type EntityProperties = {
   [key: string]: PropertyTypes
 };
 
@@ -27,20 +22,11 @@ export class Entity {
     this.id = id;
     this.properties = {};
   }
-  onUpdate(cb: (entity: Entity) => void) {
-    // TODO: This doesn't seem like it will scale well.
-    entityEventStream.on('update', (entity: Entity) => {
-      if (entity.id === this.id) {
-        cb(entity);
-      }
-    });
-  }
 }
 
-const entities = new Map<string, Entity>();
 // TODO: Use leveldb for storing view snapshots
 
-class EntityPropertiesDeltaBuilder {
+export class EntityPropertiesDeltaBuilder {
   delta: Delta;
   constructor(entityId: string) {
     this.delta = {
@@ -58,123 +44,3 @@ class EntityPropertiesDeltaBuilder {
   }
 }
 
-// Applies the javascript rules for updating object values,
-// e.g. set to `undefined` to delete a property
-function updateEntity(entityId?: string, properties?: object, local = false, deltas?: Delta[]): Entity {
-  let entity: Entity | undefined;
-  let eventType: 'create' | 'update' | 'delete' | undefined;
-  entityId = entityId ?? randomUUID();
-  entity = entities.get(entityId);
-  if (!entity) {
-    entity = new Entity(entityId);
-    entity.id = entityId;
-    eventType = 'create';
-  }
-  const deltaBulider = new EntityPropertiesDeltaBuilder(entityId);
-
-  if (!properties) {
-    // Let's interpret this as entity deletion
-    entities.delete(entityId);
-    // TODO: prepare and publish a delta
-    // TODO: execute hooks
-    eventType = 'delete';
-  } else {
-    let anyChanged = false;
-    Object.entries(properties).forEach(([key, value]) => {
-      let changed = false;
-      if (entity.properties && entity.properties[key] !== value) {
-        entity.properties[key] = value;
-        changed = true;
-      }
-      if (local && changed) {
-        // If this is a change, let's generate a delta
-        deltaBulider.add(key, value);
-        // We append to the array the caller may provide
-        // We can update this count as we receive network confirmation for deltas
-        entity.ahead += 1;
-      }
-      anyChanged = anyChanged || changed;
-    });
-    // We've noted that we may be ahead of the server, let's update our
-    // local image of this entity.
-    //* In principle, this system can recreate past or alternative states.
-    //* At worst, by replaying all the deltas up to a particular point.
-    //* Some sort of checkpointing strategy would probably be helpful.
-    //* Furthermore, if we can implement reversible transformations,
-    //* it would then be efficient to calculate the state of the system with 
-    //* specific deltas removed. We could use it to extract a measurement
-    //* of the effects of some deltas' inclusion or exclusion, the
-    //* evaluation of which may lend evidence to some possible arguments.
-   
-    entities.set(entityId, entity);
-    if (anyChanged) {
-      deltas?.push(deltaBulider.delta);
-      eventType = eventType || 'update';
-    }
-  }
-  if (eventType) {
-    entityEventStream.emit(eventType, entity);
-  }
-  return entity;
-}
-
-// We can update our local image of the entity, but we should annotate it
-// to indicate that we have not yet received any confirmation of this delta
-// having been propagated.
-// Later when we receive deltas regarding this entity we can detect when
-// we have received back an image that matches our target.
-
-// So we need a function to generate one or more deltas for each call to put/
-// maybe we stage them and wait for a call to commit() that initiates the
-// assembly and transmission of one or more deltas
-
-function applyDelta(delta: Delta) {
-  // TODO: handle delta representing entity deletion
-  const idPtr = delta.pointers.find(({localContext}) => localContext === 'id');
-  if (!idPtr) {
-    console.error('encountered delta with no entity id', delta);
-    return;
-  }
-  const properties: EntityProperties = {};
-  delta.pointers.filter(({localContext}) => localContext !== 'id')
-    .forEach(({localContext: key, target: value}) => {
-      properties[key] = value;
-    }, {});
-  const entityId = idPtr.target as string;
-  // TODO: Handle the scenario where this update has been superceded by a newer one locally
-  updateEntity(entityId, properties);
-}
-
-subscribeDeltas((delta: Delta) => {
-  // TODO: Make sure this is the kind of delta we're looking for
-  applyDelta(delta);
-});
-
-export class Entities {
-  constructor() {
-   entityEventStream.on('create', (entity: Entity) => {
-     console.log(`new entity!`, entity);
-   });
-  }
-  put(entityId: string | undefined, properties: object): Entity {
-    const deltas: Delta[] = [];
-    const entity = updateEntity(entityId, properties, true, deltas);
-    deltas.forEach(async (delta: Delta) => {
-      await publishDelta(delta);
-    });
-    return entity;
-  }
-  del(entityId: string) {
-    const deltas: Delta[] = [];
-    updateEntity(entityId, undefined, true, deltas);
-    deltas.forEach(async (delta: Delta) => {
-      await publishDelta(delta);
-    });
-  }
-  get(id: string): Entity | undefined {
-    return entities.get(id);
-  }
-  getIds(): string[] {
-    return Array.from(entities.keys());
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/peers.ts b/src/peers.ts
index a496946..588e70b 100644
--- a/src/peers.ts
+++ b/src/peers.ts
@@ -3,11 +3,32 @@ import { registerRequestHandler, PeerRequest, ResponseSocket } from "./request-r
 import { RequestSocket, } from "./request-reply";
 import { SEED_PEERS } from "./config";
 import {connectSubscribe} from "./pub-sub";
+import {deltasAccepted, deltasProposed, ingestAll, receiveDelta} from "./deltas";
+import {Delta} from "./types";
 
 export enum PeerMethods {
   GetPublishAddress,
+  AskForDeltas
 }
 
+registerRequestHandler(async (req: PeerRequest, res: ResponseSocket) => {
+  console.log('inspecting peer request');
+  switch (req.method) {
+    case PeerMethods.GetPublishAddress: {
+      console.log('it\'s a request for our publish address');
+      await res.send(publishAddr);
+      break;
+    }
+    case PeerMethods.AskForDeltas: {
+      console.log('it\'s a request for deltas');
+      // TODO: stream these rather than
+      // trying to write them all in one message
+      await res.send(JSON.stringify(deltasAccepted));
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+});
+
 export type PeerAddress = {
   addr: string,
   port: number
@@ -33,23 +54,46 @@ class Peer {
       connectSubscribe(addr, port);
     }
   }
+  async askForDeltas(): Promise<Delta[]> {
+    // TODO as a first approximation we are trying to cram the entire history
+    // of accepted deltas, into one (potentially gargantuan) json message.
+    // A second approximation would be to stream the deltas.
+    // Third pass should find a way to reduce the number of deltas transmitted.
+
+    // TODO: requestTimeout
+    const res = await this.reqSock.request(PeerMethods.AskForDeltas);
+    const deltas = JSON.parse(res.toString());
+    return deltas;
+  }
+}
+
+const peers: Peer[] = [];
+
+function newPeer(addr: string, port: number) {
+    const peer = new Peer(addr, port);
+    peers.push(peer);
+    return peer;
 }
 
 export async function subscribeToSeeds() {
   SEED_PEERS.forEach(async ({addr, port}, idx) => {
     console.log(`SEED PEERS[${idx}]=${addr}:${port}`);
-    const peer = new Peer(addr, port);
+    const peer = newPeer(addr, port);
     await peer.subscribe();
   });
 }
 
-registerRequestHandler(async (req: PeerRequest, res: ResponseSocket) => {
-  console.log('inspecting peer request');
-  switch (req.method) {
-    case PeerMethods.GetPublishAddress:
-      console.log('it\'s a request for our publish address');
-      await res.send(publishAddr);
-      break;
-  }
-});
-
+//! TODO Expect abysmal scaling properties with this function
+export async function askAllPeersForDeltas() {
+  peers.forEach(async (peer, idx) => {
+    console.log(`Asking peer ${idx} for deltas`);
+    const deltas = await peer.askForDeltas();
+    console.log('received deltas:', deltas);
+    for (const delta of deltas) {
+      receiveDelta(delta);
+    }
+    console.log('deltasProposed count', deltasProposed.length);
+    console.log('deltasAccepted count', deltasAccepted.length);
+    ingestAll();
+  });
+}