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Most information kept in these repositories are registered with a timeout. This is a value indicating for how long the registered information is to be considered valid. This value is set according to a validity time fetched from the message from which the data was last updated. The use of such a distributed validity time allows for individual message emission intervals for all nodes in the network. All database entries are removed when no longer valid according to the registered timeout. Such entries are said to be timed out.