Network chart

Network charts, it turns out, are worthy of their own discussion page.

(Go back to Chart_research for some perspective. )

A Beginning

Here's what we start with. My computer has in it a chart that represents your computer -- it might even be the same chart you run your computer by, but fulfilled to much less precision. Indeed, I might well have charts representing different protocols that I can use to simplify my representation of your computer.

On my computer, then, I can run security analyses of the transfer of data from my computer to yours. The interesting question is how these several charts -- one for each computer on the network, say -- are combined and what happens when they are. I think the question of Chart Reversibility holds the most promising answer to this.

Internet in Charts

What do the internet protocols look like in charts? When I communicate with another computer by an address and my message percolates (with a certain chance of failure) through intermediate systems, this sounds like a problem that charts should really quite like. Particularly because I can ignore the intermediates or pay attention to them as seems proper to me.