+# Magic number prepended to all confd queries.
+# This allows us to distinguish different types of confd protocols and handle
+# them. For example by changing this we can move the whole payload to be
+# compressed, or move away from json.
+CONFD_MAGIC_FOURCC = 'plj0'
+
+# By default a confd request is sent to the minimum between this number and all
+# MCs. 6 was chosen because even in the case of a disastrous 50% response rate,
+# we should have enough answers to be able to compare more than one.
+CONFD_DEFAULT_REQ_COVERAGE = 6
+
+# Timeout in seconds to expire pending query request in the confd client
+# library. We don't actually expect any answer more than 10 seconds after we
+# sent a request.
+CONFD_CLIENT_EXPIRE_TIMEOUT = 10
+