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The registration manager of an unregistered controller should attempt to re-register with the active controller. This is to prevent accidental unregistrations. The intention for unregistration is for it to occur after the operator decommissions a node which will controller node. This means the node is no longer be part of the kafka cluster, and the controller process associated with this node is not expected to returncome back.
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