RE: Article: Fat protocols slow Web services

> Gavin Thomas Nicol:

> There used to be a Sun paper called "Notes on Distributed 
> Programming" 
> or somesuch, that was very good at pointing out that the holy grail: 
> transparency (transparent local/remote access), is impossible to 
> achieve. Over time I have come to appreciate their points.

<http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/jim94note.html>