Re: Revised roles list

[Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>]

Just to add my twopenn'orth, the role of Redirector is analogous to Enroller,
Status Requestor, Resigner: it can be Anyone, but when Anyone is doing something
special they cease to be just Anyone and become Someone. 15 seconds of fame.

Alastair

Mark Little wrote:

> > 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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