Re: Loops (RE: CPIM changes)

Dave Crocker <[email protected]> writes:

> Interconnection among independent, heterogeneous services requires common
> semantics, not common syntax.  (Common syntax is always convenient, but not
> essential.)

If end-to-end security is a goal, then this is not true.  For
end-to-end security to work, you _require_ a common syntax.  Note that
if you are not _USING_ security, then you obviously do not need to use
that common syntax.

-derek
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