Hi Dave,
In my opinion hopefully it does not. Also based from old emails with Luke we should remove the hack of ETP working with acs-subsite since this can now be done by host node map. I believe Luke only put that support so ETP can have a url in the root "/". Or if OpenACS ever do support that the root site node is not an acs-subsite, we can mount ETP on the root.
This will also remove the parameters on acs-subsite that does belongs to ETP.