QCD and Diffraction

Abstract

I review some of the main results on hard diffraction, in their relation to QCD, and indicate some of the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments. I also make some suggestions for future work.

6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD (DIS 2001), Bologna, Italy, 27 Apr-1 May 2001