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Re: layering specs

• From: Walter Underwood <wunder@i...>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@i...
• Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:24:59 -0800

At 07:13 PM 2/21/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
>If anyone thinks layering specs and layering processing is a good or bad
>idea, please let me know.

Be sure to read RFC 817, "Modularity and Efficiency in Protocol
Implementation". The short, short version of that paper is
that layering in specs helps clarity and that layering in 
implementation hurts speed.

There are many copies around, here is a pretty one:

   http://www.andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc817.html

wunder

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