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Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:14:17 -0500
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Subject:
Re: avoiding proxies
on 7/30/2003 11:10 PM Masataka Ohta wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean "proxy". I mean a third-party agent with knowledge of the application and/or the environment. My examples were poorly formed but are valid in the general sense, since we are still talking about relying upon extraneous agents which have to be managed explicitly and separately from the application end-points themselves. Certainly there are advantages to doing so voluntarily (equitable benefit from the investment in resources), but requiring this model really needs to be avoided. > On the Internet, the mechanism to relay requests to servers over > multiple links is called routing. Exactly, let's let routing do the job it is supposed to be providing already anyway, rather than layering on even more mandatory services. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.