Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by jmull on Saturday August 09, 2025 @02:17PM
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Right...
Failed protocols such as TCP adopted Postel's law as a guiding principle, and we all know how that worked out!
Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by dragonwriter on Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:05PM
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A generalized guiding principle works in one particular use case, so this proves it is a good generalized guiding principle?
Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by gjsman-1000 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:37PM
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Survivor’s bias.
Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by jmull on Saturday August 09, 2025 @03:49PM
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Circular argument.
Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by oblio on Saturday August 09, 2025 @04:24PM
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TCP is basically the only example of that principle that works and it only works because the protocol is low level and constrained. Almost all the implementations of that principle from close to the app layer are abominations we're barely keeping running.
Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by rcarmo on Saturday August 09, 2025 @01:30PM
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I’d rather we ditched MCP and used something that could leverage Swagger instead….
Re:MCP's Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices
by bharatgel on Sunday August 10, 2025 @03:03AM
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UTCP ? https://utcp.io/
On that note; some of these “best practices” arguably haven’t worked out. “Be conservative with what you send, liberal with what you receive” has turned even decent protocols into a dumpster fire, so why keep the charade going?