Inversion of re-render (subscription based re-rendering): Why it can not be this way?

Anyone that has used Richfaces knows that to rerender something, one needs to refer to it by id.

Now, this is (in my opinion) an useful approach but also a very limited one, specially if componentization and code reuse are important goals during development

Lets say I build a page (lets call it root page), that has a subview with a modalPanel, that includes a facelet component, that has a subview with modalPanel that includes another facelet component, and, when something is done here, I one another control, in the root page to be rerendered

Now, I could of course pass along the ids of the component I need to be re-rendered, but... what if I need another component to be re-rendered too? do I pass along its id too? and what if the other component is also inside (a different) subview with a modalPanel, that includes a different facelet component... then all this id "passing" gets really messy, and creates dependencies in components that could otherwise be decoupled... and to make things worse, using meaningful ids in JSF is not considered a good practice, because meaningful ids (specially if used in name container like the subviews) rapidly increase the size of the pages (because they concatenate to ids of all the contained controls), contributing to bandwidth waste .

Now, I have a proposal, what if re-rendering were to work in an "inversed" way: instead of "A" saying that it will re-render "B", we say that "B" will be re-rendered when something (maybe "A") says so by broadcasting event "C".

This would mean that "A" no longer needs to know the name of "B" and "B" wouldn’t need to know the name of "A" either, it would only need to know that it should re-render itself it something, somewhere broadcasted the event "C"

Am I making sense here? Is this doable? Or am I not seeing a major limitation in JSF technology that prevents this from being built? (I am no expert in JSF, so I really can not say, but I do know that an event subscription based re-rendering engine would be a really nice tool to have)