Endpoints - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

In current (which is to say 'legacy') network topology 'endpoint' refers to a unit at the end of a communication channel. Within that paradigm endpoints can refer to a device, tool, service, application, or node accessed over a connected network. As such network architects have assigned endpoint statuses to modems, routers, switches and host computers connecting to the TCP/IP network. Endpoints therefore have emerged as a key enabler of automation technologies and extending computing capabilities from centralized backend systems to the edges of networks. We suggest to reframe the endpoint narrative in a human-centric fashion which acknowledges that all inputs without human agency is identified by its function in reference to (a) person(s), or by its function - i.e. oracle.