State is the Mind Killer
I must not maintain endpoint state in the network. State is the network scale killer. State is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face endpoints' state. I will permit it to pass over the network and through the network.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye of telemetry to see its path. Where the endpoint state has gone there will be nothing. Only the network will remain.
I can hear Frank Herbert groaning! Lol. What about the endpoint that can connect to many networks at once?