On 9/5/2013 8:08 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
they convinced us we'd won
We've done quite a sales job on ourselves, also.
Remember the IAB tech plenary that declared protocols dead, because the
client is downloaded from the server? Think about that, in the light of
recent revelations about compromised service providers.
That is, contrast it with truly distributed and independent clients,
where the protocol defines a controlled and publicly vetted interface
between the client and the server. The former makes the client a
semantic slave to the server. The latter makes clients semantically
independent and easily able to layer things on top of the services
provided by the server. Such things as, ummm, encryption.
Clients downloaded from the server, during a session, are extremely
convenient. But they can represent an interesting violation of the
end-to-end "principle", by placing too much into the infrastructure.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net