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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Abraxa~enwiki (talk | contribs) at 13:35, 15 March 2007. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

IIRC, the terms upstream/downstream are also used for something i'd call the responsibility path in an open and separated software development process (i.e. the core developer group of a software project is in upstream direction from a distributer of the software). I'm not absolutely sure if this convention is common enough to go into wp. --85.72.38.226, 12:02, 20 Oct 2005 (UTC)

this was the definition i was looking for when i came to the page. 130.88.253.39 15:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
me too 142.59.153.99 04:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It seems to me that this the term is used often enough to be relevant for inclusion which is why I took the liberty to add it. --Abraxa 13:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]


There is also a definition of upstream/downstream in RFC2616, which relates to the direction in which data is flowing for HTTP Chrisg67 14:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]