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Bob Frankston expounds on the end-to-end principle and the implications of the internet, its roots as an overlay network of networks and its group forming future. Typically lucid musings.

we extend the SSH and TLS protocols to support resilient connections that can span several sequential TCP connections. The extensions allow sessions to survive both changes in IP addresses and long periods of disconnection. Our design emphasizes deployability in real world environments, and addresses many of the challenges identified in previous work, including assumptions made about network middleboxes such as firewalls and NATs.

It's long been our belief that REST and Roy Fielding has been palling around with Hypermedia. He barely denies it. But, my friends, let me tell you that no washed up PhD dissertation will dictate our request/response. He says it, in his own words - he talks about 'constraints', he toys with the idea of a transfer of 'state'.

Interesting views on how we've been going around a technology loop. I can relate to some of this.

The software industry has a big problem as it tries to build bigger, more complex, software systems in less time and with less money. With C++ and Java failing to deliver significantly improved developer productivity over their predecessors it's no...