Architectural Principles (Contd)
Connectivity is its own reward:
- The more the users of the Internet, the more valuable it is (Metcalfe’s law)
- Pragmatic design:
- Support all platforms, all kinds of users.
- “Understand/receive as many formats as possible; send using a standard format”
- Build de facto standards: requires rough consensus and running code. Anyone can participate in standardization.