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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 3 16:53:30 2011

To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:20:25 EST."
	<201102031520.26126.lowen@pari.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:46:31 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:20:25 EST, Lamar Owen said:
> FTP is a in essence a peer-to-peer protocol, as both ends initiate TCP streams.  I know that's nitpicking, but it is true.

Well, it's official - the original end-to-end design principal of the Internet is
dead, deceased, and buried.  Henceforth, there will be Clients, and there will
be Servers, and all nodes will be permanently classified as one or the other,
with no changing or intermixing of status allowed.

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