From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel@acm.org)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 07:47:51 CST
In <20020106115143.C10562@main.templetons.com>, on 01/06/2002
at 11:51 AM, Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> said:
>End to end people believe you put the smarts at the endpoints, and
>have the middle do nothing but routing. This leads to much more
>flexibility and innovation and better results in the end, but it's
>harder. Having the smarts in the middle means fewer points have to
>be smart, and as noted they can accomodate for older, dumber
>endpoints.
Until the "smarts" in the middle break something; then the user
smarts. Any protocol that allows rewriting in transit must be very
carefully designed to avoid unintend side effects.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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Team PL/I
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