Re: [rrg] RRG to hibernation

Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> Mon, 12 November 2012 17:33 UTC

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On Nov 12, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> From the engineering
> perspective, a design which requires changes to all hosts is, IMO, a
> non-starter.


Why?

Now that upgrades are automated, the work effort involved for the average end user is not particularly high.  And the lifetime of end hosts seems to be somewhat limited, especially now that the bulk of the end hosts have become smart phones.

And if we subscribe to your proposal that we have and end-goal that's a clean architecture, then it seems like having a natural fit between the end host and the architecture is only natural.

Tony