[talwai]

ekimekim summarized the reasoning quite well - primarily it was because I wed myself to HTTP early on in the project. To the question of knowing where the service registry itself lives, that is the one dependency which cannot (to my knowledge) be resolved dynamically. A persistent DNS record, which you update whenever the registry location changes, is the best I can think of atm.

[StavrosK]

Thank you for the response. You're right, I think discovery needs to be resolved statically, but a persistent DNS record hosting a server that can give you the rest of the info seems reasonable.