I agree with the sentiment, but not that ISPs represent consumers'
interests; generally, I find that they represent their own, with consumers'
as a distant second. Especially regarding caching.
I see the same thing, and I find it extremely disquieting. This is
why I say that intermediaries must act on explicit instructions
(whether or not part of the on-the-wire protocol) from at least
one of the end parties
I'm glad that people are talking about these issues; HTTP is AFAIK unique as
a transport protocol, in that it allows relaxation of semantic transparency
without explicit permission of the client or server.
I don't immediately see how HTTP permits this by itself; it's the idea
that the network can interpose intermediaries in the HTTP conversation
(whether via interception proxies or via auto-discovery mechanisms
that find intermediaries without authorization of either the
content provider or the content user) that seems to cause the problems.
at any rate, it needs to be stopped.
Keith