End-to-end analysis is the major theoretization of the Internet that was proposed by Jerome Saltzer, David Reed and David Clark from 1981. In their seminal paper and later ones, they formulated what became known as the end-to-end principle, interpreted often as “application-specific functions ought to reside in the end hosts of a network rather than in intermediary nodes – provided they can be implemented ‘completely and correctly’ in the end hosts”. Ths principle is much quoted by proponents of strong network neutrality requirements, including myself. In reality, Saltzer, Reed and Clark derive this “networks better be dumb or at least not too smart” approach from an underlying analysis of what happens when bits travel from an end (a computer connected to a network) to another end in a network. However both network neutrality and the end-to-end principle capture only part of what we try to make them say... More at: http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=6418&lang=en