Vat Location Service

[Eric Messick]

In message <4.1.19990111154658.009be560@ricochet.net>, "Mark S. Miller" <markm@erights.org> wrote:
>At 03:39 PM 1/11/99 , Eric Messick wrote:

>>The key that it takes to prove that you're the real VLS advertised on
>>this port.
>
>In order for a VLS's user's to avoid being fooled, wouldn't search paths
>need to contain the VatID for each VLS in the path?

This is for the registering Vat.  It has a full SturdyRef to the VLS
that it uses when registering.  One reason for this could be to keep
the number of registrants at a particular VLS down by not advertising
the SturdyRef widely.  Better would be to keep a list of what IP
addresses could register.

In any case, I've always thought that the protocol should be one that
other services could use without the E connection setup protocol.

-eric