"Another explanation is that the Internet has unnecessarily coupled the transport protocol with the rest of the RPC framework. Conflating the two naturally follows from the purpose-built examples I just gave: SMTP is bundled with MIME; SNMP is bundled with MIB; and HTTP is bundled with HTML. "
I think at this point he's suffering from what old-timers used to call recto-cranial inversion.
"Another explanation is that the Internet has unnecessarily coupled the transport protocol with the rest of the RPC framework. Conflating the two naturally follows from the purpose-built examples I just gave: SMTP is bundled with MIME; SNMP is bundled with MIB; and HTTP is bundled with HTML. "
I think at this point he's suffering from what old-timers used to call recto-cranial inversion.