quietly....

Thu Feb 3 23:14:00 UTC 2011

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> Well, it's official - the original end-to-end design principal of the 
> Internet is dead, deceased, and buried.  Henceforth, there will be 
> Clients, and there will be Servers, and all nodes will be permanently 
> classified as one or the other, with no changing or intermixing of 
> status allowed.

Er.  That's not news.  That's been the state of the art for what, 15+ 
years or so now?   SIP (because it's peer to peer) and P2P are really the 
only things that actually give a damn about it.

No one is going to check out their neighbors website running on their 
neighbors computer if the neighbor didn't make an effort to make their 
computer a server (by assigning DNS, running server software, etc) 
regardless of NAT etc etc.

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