On 9/6/06, Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> wrote:
HTTP proxies do exist but the only reason that they can work
effectively is that the vast majority of web resources are accessible
through a common medium - namely the public IPv4 Internet and TCP.
Right. But that is a natural occurrence, not the result of
bureaucratic demands for coordination. SMTP doesn't /require/ TCP
either, as I'm sure you know. I don't see a correlation between
protocol effectiveness and concrete transport protocol dependencies. I
also don't see a correlation between mandated "universal"
interoperability and protocol effectiveness.
Application protocols don't need to specify an entire protocol stack
to be successful.
--
Robert Sayre
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