Protocol ossification
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protocol-ossification-203-11600133
title:
Protocol ossification
text:
Protocol ossification is the loss of flexibility, extensibility and evolvability of network protocols. This is largely due to middleboxes that are sensitive to the wire image of the protocol, and which can interrupt or interfere with messages that are valid but which the middlebox does not correctly recognise. This is a violation of the end-to-end principle. Secondary causes include inflexibility in endpoint implementations of protocols. Ossification is a major issue in Internet protocol design
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Reduction in the flexibility of network protocol design due to middleboxes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification
date created:
2020-03-14T10:28:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:13:33Z
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