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Re: Traditional RPC

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• Subject: Re: Traditional RPC
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:02:58 -0800
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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
>
>...
>
> Scalability worries me.  Treating a WAN like a LAN worries me.  Getting
> the scripters to not code too close the process of an individual
> desktop worries me.  On the other hand, reliance on a global namespace
> has its perils too.  The issue today is edge system integration; not
> understanding the philosophy of URI.  That is corrupt on the face of
> it; it conveniently "webs" but the namespace as URI is corrosive.

Could you elucidate? I can't remember ever being a situation where
disconnected namespaces were preferable to unified ones (with decent
namespace management techniques!). The only advantage I can think of is
that disconnected namespace names can be textually shorter.
 
 Paul Prescod

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