John-
As I indicated in my earlier note, I feel that any form of policy proposal
for network applications is extremely challenging task for CDT.
I have suggestion for you to make steps for this task both useful to OPES and
productive for your policy goals. Why don't you attempt to document the
applications that you consider to be "bad" or having "bad" aspects that
your policy would like to prevent. This will assist in making your policy
clearer and provide some requirements for OPES and other networking
groups in building their architectures.
Consider presentation formatting. From the standpoint of the consumer it is
good because it allows the consumer to view/work with the content in the
format suitable to his/her device. For the content provider it is also good
because
they are not required to maintain so many device dependent versions of their
content, reducing their operations and development costs. A bad aspect
might be that the re-formatting software reduces the quality of the
content so that the user might feel the original quality is not sufficient.
So there should be a requirement that the consumer and the
content provider have some sort of "say" the quality of the software
used for this network application.
Maybe an "all bad" use is to change the content without the permission of the
content provider or the consumer.
Here is a start. Why don't you add to this list? Then you would be able
to point to some information to support your policy and we
would make requirements supporting your policy.
Are you willing to do this? If you sent out such a list to the group email
I am sure you will get feedback.
Michael
Michael W. Condry
Director, Network Edge Technology