[Spud] questions on the BoF outcome

"Fossati, Thomas (Nokia - GB)" <thomas.fossati@nokia.com> Fri, 22 July 2016 10:25 UTC

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From: "Fossati, Thomas (Nokia - GB)" <thomas.fossati@nokia.com>
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Hi,

Unfortunately I could not attend the PLUS BoF.  So, I've just gone through
the minutes [1] (thanks a lot, scribes) and got the feeling that this work
is pushed back due to the perception that it'd weaken users' privacy?

I hear these arguments:
- "potential to compel clients to send metadata or packets will dropped"

But that could have happened already if the network wanted to (just drop
any TCP payload that starts with 0x16 and allow only clear-text traffic!).
 Access networks that you pay for do not have that incentive though, so
I'm very skeptical this could now happen *because of* PLUS.

- "possibility for abuse"

Well, that depends on the metadata that *users* decide to leak (which is a
separate discussion on the vocabulary), but in general Brian's framework
looks pretty well designed to bias control towards the endpoints which can
act as circuit-breakers at any point in time.

- "giving more power to the network";

This is actually true, but in a good way: the network will have power to
send useful information to the endpoints -- if it's asked to -- while
being empowered by the signalling coming from the endpoints (e.g., for
DDoS prevention).

So, sorry but this looks a lot like FUD to me.

Is the working group not formed on these grounds?  Or have more
substantial weaknesses been highlighted during the discussion that have
not been captured in the minutes?

Cheers, thanks,
t

[1] http://etherpad.tools.ietf.org:9000/p/notes-ietf-96-plus