[MOBY-dev] Dead services and how to figure them out

[Martin Senger]

> I tend to have the opinion that only metadata necessary for discovery of a
> service should be in the registry itself, and that metadata about QoS,
> uptime, downtime, versioning, etc. all belongs somewhere else...  by
> "somewhere else" I mean (a) in the hands of the service provider themselves,
> or (b) in a third-party metadata repository.


Exactly my opinion (strong or weak :-)). Let's not pollute the registry. The
"smart" clients should anyway make some caches of the metadata so the
concern about the performance is a weak one I believe.

Cheers,
Martin

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