The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing by L. Peter Deutsch 1. The network is reliable 2. Latency is zero 3. Bandwidth is infinite 4. The network is secure 5. Topology doesn't change 6. There is one administrator 7. Transport cost is zero 8. The network is homogeneous $dotat: doc/web/random/fallacies.txt,v 1.1 2004/01/27 10:47:49 fanf2 Exp $