CPP11 — Servant management rules

Summary: Here is a list of all the POA-related operations that deal with the Servant
type, and how I believe they need to act with respect to reference
counting. Because there aren"t that many operations in this list, I believe
that by spelling them out in detail rather than trying to capture their
behavior in general rules accomplishes two things:

1) We make it crystal clear to POA implementors and application developers
how each operation handles reference counting for the Servants it deals
with, and how the POA interacts with those servants.

2) We make it clear to future maintainers of the C++ mapping for the
PortableServer module that any new operations that deal with servants must
have their servant reference counting semantics explicitly specified.

Again, because there are so few operations to cover, explicitly specifying
rules for each one is simple and precise.

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