[v6ops] Re: Dispatching Happy Eyeballs Version 3

[David Farmer <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 04:31 Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> >    1000% agree here.
> >
> >
> >    HE is masking IPv6 network problems we need to add some sort of
> >    notification/alerting somewhere.
>
> HE is typically embedded in end-user applications running on roaming client
> devices.
>
> In my opinion it would be wrong to have applications send reports about
> client traffic to random third parties without the user's consent.


You are correct, we need to talk about how we properly obtain consent from
users to share this data with operators and researchers.

I think it is also unlikely that many people will of can give consent
> because
> first they are not aware there is HE and second they don't understand what
> it does of what they are consenting to.


However, I'm not sure we need this data from a large percentage of users
across the Internet. Getting this data from even a small to modest
percentage of users could provide big bennefits to both researchers and the
operational community.

So I would suggest that we don't go too far in this rabbit hole.


I think the stakes are too high to ignore this important issue, especially
if we want to change the status quo.

Even if the client just collects this data in a X day running log and the
user can optionally include the revelant log information with a trouble
report to an operator, or elect to share this data with researchers on an
ongoing basis.

That provides a reasonable starting point for a privacy model, while still
providing operational community and researchers access to the data.

Thanks

>