A service which allows a netlet to launch itself onto a node (probably
from a remote location), run there, and access system resources.
There are typically three modes of access to a hosting service:
- The service owner (i.e. node owner) can grant warrants to its clients.
- The hosting client has this warrant which enables them to run netlets
and use resources on the owner's node(s). This will typically be used
by their management netlets: these will oversee smooth running of
the application, start up small worker netlets and allocate them system
resources.
- The worker netlets will use the system resources granted to them by
their managers. But it is not their job to start new netlets or organise
further resources, so they would not have access to these features
of the hosting service.
Nik Silver
2001-11-21
