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Summary of the paper

This paper presents End-To-End Arguments in the system design,
especially in the modern network design. The principle suggests that
functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of
little value. So we should pay attention to it and implement
functions in the higher layers. This paper discusses this issue from
several examples, including careful file transfer, performance
aspects, delivery guarantees, secure transmission of data, duplicate
message suppression. All the examples are discussed in detail and
then come to conclusion. At last, author also provides the history
context and works. The idea is generally well presented, and the
research work itself is quite significant and comprehensive.

Points in favour or against

The paper is generally well written, with fine and clear
presentation. The most thing attracts me is that author uses many
examples to illustrate the viewpoint. However, the disadvantage seems
to be no simulation for demonstrating the conclusion.
Received on Wed Sep 13 2006 - 23:27:08 EDT