Re: Summing up on visibility(?)

Mark Baker wrote,
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:12:17PM +0000, Miles Sabin wrote:
> > Oh, I see. You mean visibility in the sense of end to end semantics
> > being accessible to otherwise oblivious intermediaries.
>
> Right.
>
> > I can't respond to that question without reopening the binding
> > thread.
>
> Well, by saying that, you appear to be saying, "No", you don't see
> any differences in visibility.

Well, I don't believe that application-level semantics are likely to be 
accessible to anything, intermediary or otherwise, without it having 
some sort of prior knowledge of those semantics (this is just the good 
ol' end-to-end principle).

If that's a "No" to your question, then "No".

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:15:33 UTC