performing grantor recovery after the
current grantor is cleanly destroyed is not optimal.  As an
optimization, the grantor being destroyed could choose a successor
grantor and transfer grantorship to it.  Since the grantor does not
maintain a list of which members have created the lock service, it
could choose a successor based on the members that have obtained
locks.

<A NAME="transfer-grantor"><H2>Transferring Grantorship</H2></A>

In some applications a single member of the distributed lock service
may 