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Activation of ORB servers is transparent to ORB clients using DCE-CIOP. Unless an IOR refers to a transient object, the agent
addressed by the IOR profile should either be permanently active, or should be activated on demand by DCE’s endpoint mapper.
The current DCE endpoint mapper, rpcd, does not provide activation. In ORB server environments using rpcd, the agent addressed
by an IOR must not only be capable of locating the object, it must also be able to activate it if necessary. A future DCE
endpoint mapper may provide automatic activation, but client ORB implementations do not need to be aware of this distinction.