Re: [Aeon] Collaborative network proposal

["Charles Eckel (eckelcu)" <[e-mail]>]

I agree. Network operators need ways to categorize and provide differentiated services for traffic, but relying on DPI is error prone, cumbersome, and potentially done at the expense of user privacy and application security (e.g. shared keys made available to DPI enabled middle boxes or HTTP proxies ). In the end, much more information about the user and the application are revealed than was actually needed by the network operator to achieve their goals. By eliminating reliance on DPI we reduce the incentive and justification for such practices.

Cheers,
Charles

From: "Tirumaleswar Reddy (tireddy)" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Friday, March 21, 2014 at 5:06 AM
To: "Fan, Peng" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, 'Hui Deng' <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, "[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, 'Ted Lemon' <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Subject: Re: [Aeon] Collaborative network proposal

Hi Peng,

I think DPI should be retired. In addition to the below problems you had mentioned in the draft, it’s the same problem with WebRTC where DPI would fail for signaling traffic. WebRTC framework allows any proprietary signaling to be used, so DPI/ALG will not be able to understand the control traffic (Even if middle boxes somehow magically figure to act as TLS proxy).  Both home and access network will not be able to identify and prioritize the media streams.

Cheers,
-Tiru

From: Fan, Peng [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:20 PM
To: Tirumaleswar Reddy (tireddy); 'Hui Deng'; [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>; 'Ted Lemon'
Subject: RE: [Aeon] Collaborative network proposal

Hi Tiru,

Yes, encrypted traffic is another supporting point. I guess it is time we consider finding a way to retire or simplify DPI functions.

Regards,
Peng

From: Aeon [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Tirumaleswar Reddy (tireddy)
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:03 PM
To: Hui Deng; [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>; Ted Lemon
Subject: Re: [Aeon] Collaborative network proposal

Hi Hui,

The other problem is that when content providers and clients move to TLS for privacy reasons, the current DPI mechanisms used by middle boxes will fail.
You may want to look into http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eckel-aeon-use-cases-00#section-2.5.1 which discusses similar problems with CDN and possible solutions.

Thanks and Regards,
-Tiru

From: Aeon [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Hui Deng
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 7:09 AM
To: [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>; Ted Lemon
Subject: [Aeon] Collaborative network proposal

Hello all.

We just submitted a draft to propose the concept of the collaborative network as below link:
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-fan-intarea-conet-ps-uc-00.txt

Our basic ideal is that there are many similar use cases as AEON, so we post here to seek for more comments whether we could work together

Here we cc to Int Area AD Ted.

Thanks a lot

-Hui