From: Rohit Khare (rohit@uci.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 17:37:37 PST
>Subject: A modest supposition
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>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:28:34 -0800 (PST)
>From: hardie@equinix.com
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> I've been reading through David Burdett's draft on the
>requirements for XML messaging for much of today, interrupted by a
>couple of meetings with router and switch vendors. Something about
>the contrast has caused me to posit two things:
>
>Constant efforts to achieve efficiency by collapsing lower layers
>(e.g. POS's replacement of ATM) are and forever will be balanced by
>the constant reinvention of those lower layers at the application
>layer.
>
>more specifically,
>
>Every messaging protocol expands until it replicates the control
>mechanisms of TCP.
>
> It's probably a good thing, really; it represents the
>Darwinian adaptive radiation being balanced by natural selection in
>the network world, or justifies the fundamental control structures
>needed throughout the stack, or something like that. Or maybe I need a
>bit more coffee.
>
> Ted Hardie
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