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Subject:    [dns-operations] SUSPECT: Re: A Case Against DNSSEC (A Matasano Miniseries)
From:       jabley () ca ! afilias ! info (Joe Abley)
Date:       2007-04-05 12:59:02
Message-ID: 496D8B4B-7414-4310-A370-B2E7FAECCF0A () ca ! afilias ! info
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On 5-Apr-2007, at 04:34, John Kristoff wrote:

> The article says this:
>
>   "The end-to-end argument in system design. It says that you want to
>   keep the Internet dumb and the applications smart."
>
> That is a common summarization of the e2e principle, but not a
> correct one and it causes no end of confusion.

I saw that, too. I think the approach is better attributed to David  
Isenberg than to the end-to-end principle (which is more concerned  
with the absence of middleboxes between communicating devices).


Joe


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