[e2e] New approach to diffserv...

[John Kristoff]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 12:01:29PM -0400, Melinda Shore wrote:
> difficult but a lot more productive.  Unfortunately, the people
> who buy equipment and install networks often absolutely do NOT
> want end-to-end transparency, and they absolutely DO want devices
> retaining application state in the middle of the network.  That's

I can assure you that at least one institution I know of absolutely
does want e2e transparency.  I've heard that others care about it
too, but we at least felt strongly enough to write up our own rfc
about security and its role in 'the network'.

http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/technotes/dpuinfosec-rfc3001.txt

I like what David was hinting at.  Perhaps as users moved to PCs
to get the freedom and control of processing power, so to will they move
to get freedom of network transparency.  Tunnelling tricks and
user (rogue?) proxies are current examples of that already happening
to get around centralized administrators' controls.

John