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The only way to releive work is to distribute it, not
concentrate it.
False. You can also relieve work while keeping throughput
constant by reducing overhead.
Distributing work often reduces throughput by creating more
overhead. Only a few applications are embarassingly parallel
- most do not scale well as the number of PEs is increased.
Keith is absolutely right here. If you give the job of reviewing
documents to 20 people instead of 5 you have just quadrupled the amount
of work.
The way to reduce work is by subsidiarity - devolve decision making to
the lowest possible level.
Adding people to a committee does not help, decentralization of decision
making does.
Nobody else gets to concurrently
see the problems that exist at every level of the protocol stack.
Plenty of people outside the IETF do, they are known as users, also
ISPS, researchers etc.
There are several issues such as security which do cut across the whole
stack. I don't claim that every Internet problem is a security problem
but most of the urgent ones are.
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