A networked commercial interaction management method assembles information
into bundles that include a data element reference and meta data
describing the data element. The method distributes the meta data and the
data element reference from the bundles through the network, and
distributes copies of the data elements in the bundles from the network
node of their respective data owners to the network nodes of accessors
using the meta data and the data element reference distributed through
the network. In at least one embodiment, the method periodically issues
bundle version identifying signals to different nodes of the network. The
bundle version identifying signals indicate changes to the data elements
to the network nodes of accessors.