End-to-end arguments in system design

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Summary

A design principle is presented that helps guide placement of functions among the modules of a distributed computer system and suggests that functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level.

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Published
1984-11-01
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Keywords

Acknowledgement, Computer science, Argument (complex analysis), End-to-end principle, Encryption

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