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The "end-to-end argument" was proposed by network architects Jerome Saltzer, David Reed and David Clark in 1981 as a principle for allocating intelligence within a large scale computer network.

It has since become a central principle of the Internet's design. End-to-end [e2e] counsels that "intelligence" in a network should be placed at its ends-in applications-while the network itself should remain as simple as is feasible, given the broad range of applications that the network might support.

ObUrL: http://www.law.stanford.edu/e2e/papers/Saltzer_Clark_Reed_ActiveNetworkinge2e.html
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Reed, Saltzer, Clark, Active Networking and End-to-End Arguments. An update on the thinking in the end-to-end paper, specifically criticizing the "active networking" idea.

http://www.reed.com/Papers/EndtoEnd.html

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