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Issue 74:  Alternates are authoritative
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reschke committed Oct 6, 2015
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mechanism is intended for limiting how long an alternative service can be used
for establishing new connections, not limiting the use of existing ones.
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Alternative services are fully authoritative for the origin in question, including
the ability to clear or update cached alternative service entries, extend freshness
lifetimes, and any other authority the origin server would have.
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When alternative services are used to send a client to the most optimal server, a change in
network configuration can result in cached values becoming suboptimal. Therefore, clients &SHOULD;
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