1. A system for distributing at least one infrastructure description record over at least one tier of a network, the system comprising: at least one network interface that receives the infrastructure description records and the infrastructure description records being enqueued on at least one incoming, transactional, persistent queue; at least one transactional, persistent store; and at least one transactional process that dequeues the infrastructure description record from the incoming, transactional, persistent queue and accesses the infrastructure description record to create an accessed infrastructure description record, the accessed infrastructure description record being stored in the transactional, persistent store in the system.