Weekly Routing Table Report
Masataka Ohta
mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Sat Aug 31 11:14:01 UTC 2019
Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> If you can't accept the following principle of the End to End
>> argument:
>>
>> The function in question can completely and correctly be
>> implemented only with the knowledge and help of the
>> application standing at the end points of the
>> communication system.
>
> this is a straw man argument.
The text is in the original paper on the principle:
End-To-End Arguments in System Design
J. H. SALTZER, D. P. REED, and D. D. CLARK
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/Publications/PubPDFs/End-to-End%20Arguments%20in%20System%20Design.pdf
> E2E works regardless of the current
> network-based multihoming mechanism or the proposals in
> draft-ohta-e2e-multihoming.
As the next sentence of the paper is:
Therefore, providing that questioned function as a feature
of the communication system itself is not possible
which means:
Therefore, providing multihoming as a feature
of the communication system itself is not possible
you are wrong.
> Your proposal is almost a text-book case of RFC1925, section 6:
FYI, the rfc was published on 1 April.
> I.e. instead of having network level complexity, you're proposing to
> shift the problem to maintaining both state and network into the host
> level. No doubt it has some benefits, but this comes at the cost of
> bringing dfz complexity down to the host and all the consequent support,
> scaling and management headaches associated with that. I.e. the problem
> space shifts, but is not solved.
So, you are joking, aren't you?
> > feel free to keep using POTS not smart phones.
>
> Thank you, I certainly will. Conversely, please feel free to use
> arguments instead of rhetoric.
Instead of rhetoric, I argue by quoting from papers, hopefully not
published on 1 April, validity of which is well recognized.
Masataka Ohta
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