Has there been research into protocol ossification or general architecture ossification? This term was literally invented for the Internet. I found the original source awhile back, but as I was searching I did not find many results on academic research into this very important concept.
Computer science and software engineering research is really bizarre like that! They take this architecture fuck for granted and spend their whole careers devising new ways of building on top of it. Just like POSIX - like there is no desire for designing something else. Or from what I’ve seen, software engineering is not too interested in system measurement, so the research available on system reliability, for example, is far more oriented toward theoretical frameworks than experimental studies.
In systems engineering we would call it “tight coupling” so probably I should research this term more. I have yet to see a mathematical description of this architecture phenomenon.
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