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jschoubben ba0d01788e 0062: a host may be episodic; 0060's Android gap closed
0060 named the gap and did not close it: everywhere else an init runs the
launcher at boot, and Android grants neither an init to register with nor
anything worth supervising, because a supervisor would be killed alongside what
it supervises.

Closed by narrowing what is required rather than building something. A host is
resident or episodic, and both are hosts. Being killed by the platform is
disconnection, which 0036 already made ordinary -- and every mechanism an
episodic host needs already exists because it was built for laptops that close.

A partial host can join a mesh and cannot be the first node, since every
bootstrap step is a shape it refuses. Its bundle says so.

Two consequences that are easy to miss: last-heard-from means much less on an
episodic host, so a healthy phone reads as a dead server unless the reader
knows which kind it is; and a declaration may take a long time to land, which
makes 0058's outstanding-versus-failed distinction load-bearing.

Still open, and in that order: what an Android node is FOR, and only then how
it is started.
2026-08-28 01:24:07 +02:00