On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I note that this is generally a job that has also fallen to 3rd party consultants and installers, as well as the more geeky family members. (thankfully, my younger brother took over running my mom's network). I am all in favor of better, voluntary tools, for people to have, mortally opposed to an isp having data about my in-home connection that I have not agreed to share and/or don't have myself. > 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? One - make it mandatory that an ISP is not allowed to lock in their stuff inside the home demarc, but to allow competition here. Germany just did that. http://lwn.net/Articles/695498/ two - make the laws for data privacy and penalties for violating it strict enough to make a company or government to clearly hand off to the owner of the equipment. technologically, I'd like for sufficient standards to emerge so that a competetive market in "cpe" can continue to exist, innovate, and so forth. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
