Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises

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vegai

If SOAP is compared to anything favorably, there is indeed big big problems.

Student

Who’s deploying mcp across hosts? It’s clearly only for local connectivity between an agent process and local mcps.

jasonjmcghee

This is (terrifyingly due to the new attack surfaces) becoming pretty popular. Claude supports registering a remote mcp server with a click and digital ocean is encouraging folks to build them on their platform.
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ocramz

what’s the difference between untrusted code running on your box vs remotely?
- nikaro
  
  How do you draw the line between trusted and untrusted code? Many MCP servers are open-source.