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

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com> writes:

  Mark> We're certainly of like-mind at this end, though certain
  Mark> people ;-) at myGrid think that the agent is the wrong way to
  Mark> go... I just don't see it.  IMO a leasing model would be akin
  Mark> to leasing space in Google!

The lease is the more common idiom, I think. I don't think that there
is a huge difference. My main criticism of the agent is that there
does not seem to be a different connection between the agent poll and
the service being available. 



Phil