[ih] principles of the internet

[Dave Crocker]

On 6/1/2010 10:23 AM, John Day wrote:
>    However, I would disagree with him that all
> application protocols must be asymmetrical.

Perhaps some other Dave posted what you are responding to, and I missed it, but 
if you mean my note: I never made such a claim.

I made a statistical assertion of what is and has been -- as you also note -- 
but not what must be.


> It is the case that once an asymmetrical protocol is introduced into an
> architecture, it makes very difficult to build anything on top of it.

like HTTP?


> The running code/rough consensus is probably one of the more important
> aspects of driving the Internet to a artisan tradition rather than a
> more scientific one. This is has probably contributed most to the
> stagnation we currently see.
>
> An odd complement to the aversion to complexity, there seems to be an
> aversion to sophistication that leads to greater simplicity.

I assume that the goal of this exercise requires ignoring the rather remarkable 
complexity that has crept into much of the recent work in the IETF?


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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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