Databases Synchronization Proposal

> 
>   > I think having a master registry is a good idea. 
> 
> It is not only a good idea but a requirement!  You usually do not have
> distributed notarys either. 

I expect that this model will not scale.  My limited view sez that this
looks like the hosts.txt problem that DNS was invented for.


> The serial numbers can be used to discover missing updates in case of
> unreliable transport methods like e-mail.  This can then cause a
> re-fetch of the missing updates via another channel. 

I expect that the use of an e-mail channel is really bad, unless we
have somethign like PEM.
 
 
--bill



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