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A list of gathered references, definitions and synonyms for the figure of the proxy in various contexts, based on research for explanatory essay on Proxies for Networks at ITP site about telecommunications networks

What are do we feel or experience by proxy? What are you a proxy for? What do you intermediate, and hold, that is coming from somewhere and going somewhere else? What are the effects of these embodied transmissions? How can this position of intermediary, in its irreducible in-between-ness, constitute or allow us to imagine other modes of communication?

Proxy...

as an entity empowered to perform actions on behalf of another

The Etymology of "Agent" and "Proxy" in Computer Networking Discourse, Joseph Reagle

as "agents that intermediate relations, such as proxy servers in computer science, proxy indicators in natural science, or proxy associations in vernacular expression"

Proxy Users, Use By Proxy: Mapping Forms of Intermediary Interaction, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Marcus Carter, Rowan Wilken, Jenny Kennedy, Martin Gibbs

"was seemingly first used in the network context...in 1986 to designate one object as a local representative of a remote object"

The Etymology of "Agent" and "Proxy" in Computer Networking Discourse, Joseph Reagle

as an intermediary between a client requesting data and the server providing that data

Proxy, Wikipedia

"as a go between, representing requests or services on behalf of one party in terms the second party can understand"

The Etymology of "Agent" and "Proxy" in Computer Networking Discourse, Joseph Reagle

as "a manager empowered to perform actions on behalf of another manager. This may be necessary because the manager cannot communicate directly with the managed devices either for security or other administrative reasons or because of incompatible communication mechanisms or protocols. In either case, the proxy assumes the agent role with respect to the requesting manager and the manager role with respect to the managed device."

RFC 1095, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

as intermediary

as conduit, channel

as decoy

as stand-in

as link

as surrogate

as avatar

as router

as node

as go-between

facilitates transmission, indirect relations of exchange

bridges unconnected things

touches the unknown

On Patterns and Proxies, or the Perils of Reconstructing the Unknown, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

manages (in)visiblity

maintains the opacity of entities

Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant

complicates culpability

On Patterns and Proxies, or the Perils of Reconstructing the Unknown, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Proxy

Proxy...

as an entity empowered to perform actions on behalf of another

as "agents that intermediate relations, such as proxy servers in computer science, proxy indicators in natural science, or proxy associations in vernacular expression"

"was seemingly first used in the network context...in 1986 to designate one object as a local representative of a remote object"

as an intermediary between a client requesting data and the server providing that data

"as a go between, representing requests or services on behalf of one party in terms the second party can understand"

as "a system or router that provides a gateway between users and the internet"

as networked object of evasion

as component in a distributed system

as ambivalent

as intermediary

as conduit, channel

as decoy

as stand-in

as link

as surrogate

as avatar

as router

as node

as go-between

facilitates transmission, indirect relations of exchange

bridges unconnected things

touches the unknown

manages (in)visiblity

maintains the opacity of entities

complicates culpability

creates dependencies

"may provide anonymity and security, but can also block access"

mediates flow of information

resists singular definition

essay on proxies for NYU ITP site about telecommunications networks