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Re: [alto] Potential privacy issue in draft-deng-alto-p2p-ext-01?

"Vijay K. Gurbani" <vkg@bell-labs.com> Mon, 30 June 2014 13:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [alto] Potential privacy issue in draft-deng-alto-p2p-ext-01?
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On 06/28/2014 12:55 AM, Songhaibin (A) wrote:
>> However, I also suspect that the privacy concerns on *provisioned*
>> access bandwidth are still intact since they will tend to point to
>> subscribers that are outliers.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this sentence due to my poor English. By
> "outlier" do you mean some exceptional/abnormal provisioned bandwidth
> value bound to an endpoint property?

Haibin: Your English is excellent, and yes, that is what I meant.

> If the endpoints with higher provisioned access bandwidth would be
> pointed more often than other endpoints, you imply the privacy
> concern is: those endpoints do not want to be recognized?

It's more than those endpoints don't want to be recognized, the question
is: has the subscriber corresponding to the endpoint provided consent
to allow his/her provisioned bandwidth to be distributed by ALTO?

Thanks,

- vijay
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