See:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ECDefns.html#StratSt
and thence:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/JStratIS92.html
which I wrote in late 1990.
If you liked 'disintermediation', you'll like 're-intermediation' even
more; and you'll just *lo-o-ove* the current word, which sums it all up in
a dozen or so syllables: 'dis-inter-remediation' ...
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