S Woodside wrote:
[..]
That is, perhaps, a good thing, since I think that most naive people
will THINK that they intuitively grasp what end-to-end means, but they
are wrong.
Most naive people are wrong about many things, but this is not an argument
for making up new words to express broadly-similar-but-different-in-context
concepts. It is an argument for naive people to recognize their lack
of knowledge and go to the sources pertinent to the subject matter.
Which, for the purposes of understanding packet networking and "the
internet", is NOT your local dictionary.
gja