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Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 10:56:33

Though of course an underlying problem is that no vendor wants to sell
hardware that will obsolete itself, unless of course it obsoletes itself
by requiring the customer to purchase even more expensive hardware than
it replaces.    It's hard to see how IETF could fight against vendors who
were making good money by making the network more complex, less reliable,
and less flexible.

Personally I would characterise this as a demand-side problem, not
supply-side: most users plainly aren't willing to pay for Internet
transparency. You can't blame vendors or providers for not making stuff or
operating services that people won't pay for. The issue IMO is the lack or
poor alignment of economic incentives for choosing implementation and
deployment options that promote transparency.

Josh.


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