Re: Revised roles list

[Mark Little <mcl@arjuna.com>]

> I don't think we did drop it.  Redirector is a bit like the Resigner and
> Enroller roles - it's really only defined by being the origin of the
> REDIRECT message. The entity doing the sending could just be left as
> anonymous - "the REDIRECT is sent", but it seems easier to say there is
such
> a role.  But it may not behave as a redirector all the time - some systems
> might have a permanent redirector (whose address is given out with
priority
> > 0) but others might behave as a pass-through communicator normally, but
> send redirect when things go wrong. Or a factory might leap in as
redirector
> when a composer or coordinator moves.

Agreed. And some implementations may not have any redirector.

Mark.

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