Bootstrapping / lost mode

[natevw]

Every mesh must define and share one or more "lost epochs" that are used to send beacons for synchronization of any lost motes.

I'm thrown off by the "and share" part. I would imagine configuring each device with a lost epoch basically for any/every PHY mode it aims to support (e.g. one particular "rally point" where all the LoRa motes go back to if lost). For a given mesh this/these would all have to be "burned in" via some out-of-band provisioning mechanism, basically the secret password(/passport) of the mesh.

So why does the mesh "share" these epochs? Wouldn't any mote who could receive such a share already know it, sort of by definition?

[natevw]

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