I will rephrase to resolve the ambiguity - maybe 'a request for data, 
accompanied by a value of type a', to be fulfilled by an upstream provider'?

On Monday, May 26, 2014 1:25:51 AM UTC+10, Pierre R wrote:
>
> I am wondering about this sentence:
>
> > Request = a request for data from an upstream provider accompanied with 
> a value of type a'
>
> Isn't the request coming from downstream (on the upstream requester 
> interface) to upstream (on the downstream "server" interface) ? 
>
> The term "provider" might be confusing because you can view the requester 
> as a provider of the value a' or you can view upstream as the provider of 
> what is requested by a downstream proxy.
>
> I am not an English native speaker so it might just be me.
>
> Cheers
>

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