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> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrzej Jan Taramina [mailto:andrzej@c...] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:16 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing??? > > Box's implication is that HTTP should do this for you. I > disagree. Someone > said that it is best not to hide network plumbing issues from > developers (due to > latency, unreliability, etc.)....so I think the implication > is a poor one. At least > until network bandwidth becomes virtually infinite with zero > latencies. I'm not > going to hold my breath... > You probably mean Peter Deutsch's 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing[0] 1. The network is reliable 2. Latency is zero 3. Bandwidth is infinite 4. The network is secure 5. Topology doesn't change 6. There is one administrator 7. Transport cost is zero 8. The network is homogeneous which I completely agree with. [0] http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Fallacies.html -- THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #52 I will hire a team of board-certified architects and surveyors to examine my castle and inform me of any secret passages and abandoned tunnels that I might not know about.
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