On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, [email protected] wrote:
People just take for granted that having their communications controlled "end-to-end" by some third party (e.g. The Phone Company) is optimal for them. After all, AT&T Bell Labs created the Internet and the WWW.
"people" (the general term) just want their Internet access to work. They don't want to learn how to set it up themselves, they don't want to muck around in boxes, and they want it to be cheap, fast and rock solid, all the time. They want to set it up once and work great and don't want to have to think about it again.
They also call the ISP and complain that the ISP service is bad when they stuck the ISP wifi enabled residential gateway in the back of some lower corner cabinet behind all the stuff, and hoped they never would have to see or interact with it again.
With speed increasing, 5GHz, potentially 60GHz etc, in order to deliver a decent service to their customers, ISPs have to get involved in their customers' residential wifi networks to retain and hopefully increase customer satisfaction.
So with that out of the way, how do we still make this as open and flexible as possible? Lots of startups and established vendors are pitching these solutions to the ISPs, most of them with their own proprietary extensions and non-interworking protocols. What's the open and flexible alternative?
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