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jschoubben ee70d5b451 Issue 048 — a stated rule about the registry is enforced by nothing
The registry says every machine pulls from it and opens its port to the mesh for
that reason. A machine that tries is refused by its own container runtime: the
registry serves plain HTTP and anything but loopback is treated as HTTPS.

It has never failed, and that is the finding. Every proof that a machine can
fetch a mesh-built artifact was a proof about the machine that built it, where
the reference was loopback. The bed that uses a routable address gets away with
it because the harness writes the runtime's configuration before the mesh exists.

Kept separate from 042, which they are easy to confuse: that one is about not
being allowed to pull, this one about not being able to whatever the credential
says. Fixing 042 alone leaves a machine with a valid account for a registry its
runtime will not talk to.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
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