[moby] Re: [MOBY-dev] lease versus agent for registry updating

[Boris Steipe]

On Friday, Aug 12, 2005, at 16:57 Canada/Atlantic, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> The
> agent can deregister services that fail the URL lookup, but still 
> retain
> the URL and try them a few more times just in case they come back up
> again.  That way the registry is always reflecting the *best*
> information it can possibly know, but the burden of re-registering
> services still falls on the Registry as much as possible.

If the agent then automatically re-registers when it succeeds, that's 
what I just said. (I think.)

(Except you went like *this* (gestures handwave to the side, sort of)).

:-)

B.