Hourglass "Angioplasty"

Current hourglass converges at "bits" in the middle

• Loses semantics, top-down
• Loses correlation with the physical, bottom-up

Desire a widening of the semantic layer

• Preserve top-down semantics
• Richer interface to lower-layer services

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