1. A method that provides for inter-distributed-computing-facility operations, the method comprising: in a distributed computing facility, storing metadata within, or storing the metadata together with, an object, stored within the distributed computing facility, with respect to which a request can be directed to the distributed computing facility, the metadata identifying a computational entity within the distributed computing facility that can receive and carry out the request, and retrieved by accessing the object; and alerting computational entities within the distributed computing facility that provide services with respect to the object to update the metadata following metadata-invalidating events, the metadata-invalidating events including moving the object from one computational entity to another computational entity within the distributed computing facility; altering or updating the object; and modifying request-servicing assignments within the distributed computing facility.