This is why LAN Folk spend so much time talking about APIs as though APIssolve Communication Network Problems. This part of my analysis is a bit slippery. Don't leap to conclusions herewithout stopping to think about it. Ponder a bit. SEP makes things disappear.
Mutual collaboration is the only useful toolin an Internet.
It would appear that SEP does not work in the Internet. And, pity the poor End User, who lives in the Interworking Paradigm, andonly wants to get some work done by usefully exchanging Application InformationObjects with a multitude of other End Users who work on a multitude of systemsand networks whose design and administration they cannot control, or eveninfluence. For my InterNaut Friends, think of Interworkability as Interoper abilitywith Multicasting built in. Let me provide a direct example, from the land of network management. Any Internetsolution requires dealing with distributed authority and distributed responsibility.