Citation: D. D. Clark, "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 1988). [ACM]

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This paper summarizes the rationale behind the design choices made for the Internet (initiated by DARPA) and explains how the Internet, its protocols, and its underlying mechanisms ended up being the way they were in 1988. … Continue Reading ››

Citation: J. H. Saltzer, D. P. Reeed, D. D. Clark, "End-to-End Arguments in System Design," 2nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Paris, (April 1981), pp. 509-512. [PDF]

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The crux of the end-to-end argument is that in most cases endpoints (e.g., applications) know best what they need, and the underlying system should provide only … Continue Reading ››