On Apr 30, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote:

All we want is *SOMETHING* we can do that we know is safe.


This is the most important thing.  +1

The registration cache seems like the safest,


+100

but the notifier would be better than where we are today if we can get the important race conditions out of it.


+0.1. Yes, it would work, and I agree that it would be marginally better than what we have today. IMHO, it seems like fixing this Right would be better than "let's do a possibly simpler but sub-optimal solution."

The current state of the field is unacceptably stupid and I'm actually
amazed there's any resistance to fixing the problem.


I'm a little amazed that it's gone this long without being fixed (I know I spoke about this exact issue at Sonoma 3 years ago!).

--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems

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