It recognized the need for intermediaries sure, but I don't believe it treated them as first class citizens. The idea has always been to treat them as proxies.

It recognized the need for intermediaries sure, but I don't believe it treated them as first class citizens. The idea has always been to treat them as proxies. Proxies extend/enhance the behaviour of a certain process without changing the interfaces. This particular standard changes those interfaces by treating proxy communication different to target communication.