It'd be nice if you could put a Requester Chest outside and it create a passive provider chest inside. If the requester chest is requesting 100 Iron Plates, then the items would be moved to the passive provider chest inside until it had 100 Plates. (so you'd end up with 100 outside and 100 inside). Any items in the requester chest that aren't in the request list would simply be moved over to the provider chest.
The inverse would be nice where you could put a Requester chest inside and a passive provider outside and it would function the same way.
Not sure how you could do Active/Storage chests though....will have to think more on that one.