TOLEDO, Ohio - The Night Desk of Hosted Rooms said Thursday a long-running agent may hold a hosted sandbox only while a numbered motel key stays on its hook in the room. When keep-alives stop, the night clerk checks the agent out and hangs the key back on the board. Counsel for the desk, Owen Brisk, said the key is cut at the window and tagged with the room number. "An idle session is a vacant room," Brisk said. "We do not file artifacts from a hook that has come back. The agent may still be thinking in the corridor. That does not keep the key." A circular effective 22 September requires each hosted environment to sit beside its own key rack. The clerk punches the tag when the agent checks in. A laboratory that asked to keep the workspace after the keep-alives went quiet was told the board does not take a promise. An analyst at the Institute for Transient Occupancy said two vendors in Lucas County had already bolted key racks to their consoles after hosted sandboxes went out as a billed room, separate from token charges. "They asked whether a self-hosted closet down the hall could stand in for the motel key," the analyst said. "The desk said the hook is the occupancy." Keys that jam are taken to the shop. The session is held until a spare tag is seated. Brisk said the desk does not plan to sell weekly stays. "If the work were one occupancy," he said, "the key would stay in the door."