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> Subject: Re: WREC/CDNP/extproxy ... moving forward
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> > now every player on the Internet has some kind of responsibility to the
> > consumer or the content-provider.
>
> right, but at some point that responsibility is so distant that it
> is no help in fixing things when they don't work.
I am not sure I agree. That is the way things work today.
This is the additional architecture we need to add.
>
> or to put it another way, we should design the system in such a way that
> (at least, for components that conform to the specification)
> the behavior of intermedaries is specified by the end-users of the system
> (meaning both providers and consumers) and such intermediaries can
> be circumvented when the need arieses.
>
> Keith
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