• To: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Subject: Re: Using RDDL as a Distributed Registry Architecture
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:43:36 -0400
• Cc: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <002001c26eb0$16c7fda0$1fc8c8c8@mitchum>; from bill.dehora@p... on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:49:38AM +0100
• References: <3DA1E8E2.380503EF@m...> <002001c26eb0$16c7fda0$1fc8c8c8@mitchum>

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:49:38AM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> The Web architecture is based on client/server. It's designed for a
> client to GET a document from one place, that place being the origin
> server.

Incorrect.  It's a layered architecture, meaning that any intermediary
in a message path can respond with the "document".  That's how caching
works.

> I think the web is more centralized than you give it credit for.

Except for its (current) dependance on DNS, the Web is the most
decentralized distributed architecture I know of.

MB
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Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.               distobj@a...
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