>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Andrzej Jan Taramina [mailto:andrzej@[...].com] 
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:16 AM
>  To: xml-dev@[...].org
>  Subject: RE: [xml-dev] MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing???
>  

>  Box's implication is that HTTP should do this for you.  I 
>  disagree. Someone 
>  said that it is best not to hide network plumbing issues from 
>  developers (due to 
>  latency, unreliability, etc.)....so I think the implication 
>  is a poor one.  At least 
>  until network bandwidth becomes virtually infinite with zero 
>  latencies.  I'm not 
>  going to hold my breath...
>  

You probably mean Peter Deutsch's 8 Fallacies of Distributed
Computing[0] 

1.  The network is reliable 
2.  Latency is zero  
3.  Bandwidth is infinite  
4.  The network is secure  
5.  Topology doesn't change  
6.  There is one administrator  
7.  Transport cost is zero  
8.  The network is homogeneous 

which I completely agree with. 

[0] http://java.sun.com/people/jag/Fallacies.html

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