Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/2/13 8:50 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > On 08/02/2013 08:28 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > > > On Aug 1, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > >>> From: Phillip Hallam-Baker > >> > >>> The ISPs had a clear interest in killing of NAT which threatened the > >>> ISP business model. > >> > >> So

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/02/2013 08:28 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > >>> From: Phillip Hallam-Baker >> >>> The ISPs had a clear interest in killing of NAT which threatened the >>> ISP business model. >> >> So this is

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 1, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> From: Phillip Hallam-Baker > >> The ISPs had a clear interest in killing of NAT which threatened the >> ISP business model. > > So this is rather amusing: you're trying to tell me that ISPs wanted to kill > NAT, and I have other people telling

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Phillip Hallam-Baker > > > The ISPs had a clear interest in killing of NAT which threatened the > > ISP business model. > > So this is rather amusing: you're trying to tell me that ISPs wanted to > kill > NAT, and I have ot

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20130801191438.c027718c...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, Noel Chiappa write s: > > From: Phillip Hallam-Baker > > > The ISPs had a clear interest in killing of NAT which threatened the > > ISP business model. > > So this is rather amusing: you're trying to tell me that ISPs want

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Phillip Hallam-Baker > The ISPs had a clear interest in killing of NAT which threatened the > ISP business model. So this is rather amusing: you're trying to tell me that ISPs wanted to kill NAT, and I have other people telling me NAT was an intergral part of ISPs' master pla

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Simon Leinen > In the eyes of your ISP, you were misbehaving, because you were > violating their assumption that you would use ONE (1) computer with that > connection. If you had been what they consider an honest citizen, you > would have gotten a "commercial" connect

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Joe Touch
On 8/1/2013 2:16 AM, Simon Leinen wrote: >For the first couple of years that I had an ISP connection (which soon >had an early NAT box on it), whenever I called up the ISP (then, and >still, one of the largest in the US) with a service call, the first >thing I had to do was unplug the NAT box a

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Simon Leinen wrote: > Noel Chiappa writes: > > But in any event, it's doesn't void my point: if people want > > something, we have two choices: i) blow people off, and they'll adopt > > some point solution that interacts poorly with everything else, or ii) > > give

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Simon Leinen
Noel Chiappa writes: >> From: Joe Touch >> "what people want" (ISP operators, or at least some of them), was an >> artificial way to differentiate home customers from commercial >> providers. >> I.e., they wanted to create a differentiation that wasn't part of the >> Internet architecture, so they

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-31 Thread Roland Bless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Hannes, On 30.07.2013 14:35, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > I raised the need for this transparency in this writeup: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tschofenig-hourglass-00 > > The document also points to some projects / paper I am aware of > that

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter < brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31/07/2013 05:21, Melinda Shore wrote: > > On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > >> I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most > >> users don't realize how much lack of transpar

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Joe Touch > "what people want" (ISP operators, or at least some of them), was an > artificial way to differentiate home customers from commercial > providers. > I.e., they wanted to create a differentiation that wasn't part of the > Internet architecture, so they p

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/30/2013 6:23 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: The IETF doesn't have a police force, or any enforcement mechanism. If we're going to head off these boxes, the only tool we have to do that is to build better mousetraps - i.e. design stuff that does what people want, is more cost-effective, and is bet

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/30/2013 5:17 AM, Roland Bless wrote: Hi, my impression from several presentations seen this week at the IETF as well as at the ISOC Panel on "Improving Internet Experience" is that we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ middleboxes (or their implementations re

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Roland Bless
Hi Noel, On 30.07.2013 15:23, Noel Chiappa wrote: > I hear you, but... this is not a simple problem. Yes, and I wasn't expecting it to be simple... > I think we need to start by understanding what drives the creation and > deployment of these devices. I think the answer to that has to be that so

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/30/13 12:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Users want applications to just work, but they (and many business > managers in our "industry") don't understand that when applications > fail unpredictably, it's often because of glitches in what we call > transparency. I suspect applications are no

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 05:21, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: >> I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most >> users don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them. >> So "transparent Internet access" isn't a commodity.Transparency >> wo

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most > users don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them. > So "transparent Internet access" isn't a commodity.Transparency > would be cheaper if there were more demand for it,

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > {{citation-needed}} - I've only ever seen specification conformance in > procurement documents for military systems, never for anything else. It's quite common to see a list of supported RFCs in the spec sheet for a piece of network hardware.

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > The IETF doesn't have a police force, or any enforcement mechanism. > > That's true, but people do sometimes cite IETF specifications as > requirements for equipment procurement. And in m

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Josh Howlett
>> >> Personally I would characterise this as a demand-side problem, not >> supply-side: most users plainly aren't willing to pay for Internet >> transparency. > >I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most users >don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them.

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Josh Howlett wrote: >> >> Though of course an underlying problem is that no vendor wants to sell >> hardware that will obsolete itself, unless of course it obsoletes itself >> by requiring the customer to purchase even more expensive hardware than >> it replaces.

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Josh Howlett
> >Though of course an underlying problem is that no vendor wants to sell >hardware that will obsolete itself, unless of course it obsoletes itself >by requiring the customer to purchase even more expensive hardware than >it replaces.It's hard to see how IETF could fight against vendors who >we

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> From: Roland Bless > >> we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ >> middleboxes (or their implementations respectively) - I'm not focusing >> on NAT boxes here. >> ... >> I think it's clear that we will not get rid o

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Roland Bless > we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ > middleboxes (or their implementations respectively) - I'm not focusing > on NAT boxes here. > ... > I think it's clear that we will not get rid of them, but if I hear > about b

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I raised the need for this transparency in this writeup: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tschofenig-hourglass-00 The document also points to some projects / paper I am aware of that are relevant. There may be more. Ciao Hannes On Jul 30, 2013,

Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Roland Bless
Hi, my impression from several presentations seen this week at the IETF as well as at the ISOC Panel on "Improving Internet Experience" is that we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ middleboxes (or their implementations respectively) - I'm not focusing on NAT boxes he