Misha, you speak of things "as they should be" which is good. I support this.
But Taxonomy also speaks of things "AS THEY ARE" and this is also good.
If we do not construct an ontology which can disambiguate between behaviours
in the real world now, how can we hope to understand the implementation of
our goals?
cheers
-George
PS sometimes, knowing you use a mirror is a good thing. since there is no
delayless propagation, mirrors and caches are almost by definition "stale"
and so a user is entitled to know if they are subject to redirection, or
choose to look at alternates. Again, we do not have this: but from an
end-user perspective, isn't it a sort-of right? (right now, redirection
like transparent proxy is rarely "concious" but perhaps in an AUP or
contractual sense, it should be somehow?)
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