Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Jorj Bauer <>]

> > I heard the points being made about the system now tolerating short outages
>
> Well, no, let's be clear: the system we have now can tolerate very
> long outages, on the order of hours or days (not minutes). Our
> (current) infrastructure is based on that fact.

Sure, and DNS has the same characteristics. It's easy enough to 
configure a server to use a locally installed DNS caching server, and I 
would hope to be able to do the same with an MDQ server as an 
intermediate cache.

-- Jorj