Better description of "distribution"

[jfinkhaeuser]

I think the doc glosses over "distribution" a bit. Baran's cited paper is a pretty good reference for these terms, and particularly with the popularity of "distributed consensus" algorithms, there's a strong push for decentralization techniques. As a consequence of the combination of the two, the distinction between decentralized and distributed architectures tends to get a bit blurred.

I may put in an PR in a couple of days.

[mnot]

Thanks for the suggestions. At this point I don't think they fit into where I want to focus this document, so I'm not going to merge, but I'll keep them around and look again later on.

[jfinkhaeuser]

Fair enough, I suppose. It's your draft!

But I wish you would reconsider. Both major aspects (local decision making/web as an enable for platformisation) are IMHO not present enough in current discourse.