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PRIVACY IN CYBERSPACEOpen CodeChanging ArchitectureOne of the authors of the original seminal work on Internet end-to-end architecture has raised questions about the continuing validity of the end-to-end assumption in the face of new uses, interests, and stakeholders in the Internet. Some of the changes in the Internet that might suggest moving away from end-to-end design include:
The authors also describe a number of scenarios where the original end-to-end assumption might fail:
The authors propose a number of solutions to the new requirements and problems of the Internet, some of which involve: reducing the end-to-end nature of the Internet, moving the end-to-end design to higher levels (e.g., application rather than hardware layer), adding functions to compensate for some of the weaknesses of the original design. Related Readings
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