In a recent paper [4], Reed
constructed a class of T1-compactifications which generalized the well known
correspondence between T2-compactifications, proximity relations and families of
maximal round filters. This class includes the Wallman compactification and the one
point compactification of a locally compact T1-space. In this paper the first two
problems posed by Reed are solved. In particular we prove that in a nearness
space the Reed compactification is equivalent to a cluster compactification.
Use is made of the duality between filters and grills as developed by Thron
[5].