What is the robustness principle?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-09-01

What is the robustness principle?
While the end-to-end principle gets all of the press, there’s another design principle central to how the internet operates: the robustness principle. It’s arguably equally important in creating a robust and workable internet. It’s also a great reminder to software developers about how to build robust computer systems.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.