Matthias Bärwolff
re:publica 2012
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On Intermediaries, End User Control, and Tussles — A Prelude to Thinking about Tools
all intelligence in the end points
this is how the structure should work — a market!
this is how the structure should work — a market!
“NAT, NAT-PT, SOCKS gateway, IP Tunnel Endpoints, Packet classifiers, markers and schedulers, Transport relay, TCP performance enhancing proxies, Load balancers that divert/munge packets, IP Firewalls, Application Firewalls, Application-level gateways, Gatekeepers/ session control boxes, Transcoders, Proxies, Caches, Modified DNS servers, Content and applications distribution boxes, Load balancers that divert/munge URLs, Application-level interceptors, Application-level multicast, Involuntary packet redirection, Anonymisers” (RFC 3234)
[… and you seriously want to regulate all that?]
It is not about keeping perfect control in the end points …
It is not about keeping perfect control in the end points …
… but about getting efficient and useful delegation right!
First Empower users — regarding path selection, routing criteria, etc.
First Empower users!
Second Design for tussles — because you cannot outrule them
First Empower users!
Second Design for tussles!
Third Realize that …