[e2e] new network architecture idea -

[Joe Touch]

I'm not sure what 'circumscribed' means in a communication channel.

If it means inverting send/receive gives the designer a different 
perspective, fine, but that's not an architecture as much as a 
philosophy. Anything else amounts to redefining communication, IMO.

Joe


Eric W. Anderson wrote:
> I think what it may come down to is this:  In receiver-initiated
> communication, the (former) receiver becomes a sender, but maybe *what*
> they send can be sufficiently circumscribed that the problems become
> more manageable.  
> 
> -Eric
> 
> Thus spake Joe Touch (touch at ISI.EDU):
> 
>> Communication is initiated at the sender by definition; initiating at
>> the receiver just means the receiver becomes the sender ;-)
>>
>> The sender is the one that decides what to put out and labels it
>> according to what receiver it wants to reach (whether directly, via
>> unicast, or indirectly, by group ID, XML tag, etc.) The list of what
>> receivers are reachable must be known in advance.
>>
>> I.e., although it seems like receiver-driven might get us somewhere, how
>> much of it is just relabeling the endpoints?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>