US.4. Introduction to the Helper Services
US.4.1. The Lookup Discovery Service
Under certain circumstances, a discovering entity may find it useful to allow a third party to perform the entity’s discovery duties. For example, an activatable entity that wishes to deactivate may wish to employ a separate helper service to perform discovery duties on the entity’s behalf. Such an entity may wish to deactivate for various reasons, one being to conserve computational resources. While the entity is deactivated, the helper service, running on the same or a separate host, would employ the discovery protocols to find lookup services in which the entity has expressed interest and would notify the entity when a previously unavailable lookup service becomes ...
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