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• Link stealing hard
• association between Source, Target, and  LinkEndpoint not explicit (no Link object). makes attaching logic complecated (see above) and hard to get right (threading, atomicity)

Design v2

In stead Instead of a LinkRegistry we introduce a LinkManager with expanded responsibilities.

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The LinkEndpoint is the object that the session interacts and the consumer interact with.

This will have session related state (e.g., Map<delivery-ids, unsettled delivery state>).

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