From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> From: Gary Wright Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:00:38 -0500 Subject: [9fans] Patterns in Network Architecture Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54682d12-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I just started reading this new book by John Day and wanted to point it out to 9fans. The book attempts to look back at 35 years of network protocols and see what we've learned (or not learned). I think the Plan 9 community will find it pretty interesting with chapters and sections such as: patterns in protocols naming and addressing divining layers the network IPC model making addresses topological -- the role of hierarchy in addressing -- hierarchical topology of address spaces -- melding address spaces and the hierarchy of layers Lots of interesting ideas to chew on and relate back to Plan 9's concept of private namespaces and the composition of namespaces via bind/mount. Gary Wright