jschoubben
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novox/hq 08-connectivity §3, built. The mirror of a database grant: there the consumer supplies a name and receives credentials; here it supplies a target and receives a name. Nothing new in the vocabulary — a route is a provision like any other. One field was missing and it is the one that matters for anything reaching back: a contribution now carries where the mesh says that machine is. A reverse proxy is told to send traffic to a consumer and has to open a connection, so without it every provider implementing a provision would have to know how the mesh names machines — a convention leaking into every module. The proxy itself is an example, not part of the control plane: the contract is the file, not this program. It replaces its table whole rather than merging, because the file is the whole truth about who has a route and merging would keep serving a name whose module was unassigned — the stale-route fault 08-connectivity lists as open, reintroduced one level down. A name it does not serve is refused by saying which it does: a route withdrawn and a name that never existed are different things.