Re: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

[Keith Moore]

> I think it is difficult for any working group to assume the responsibility
> for assuring that everyone will do everything correctly in terms
> of services, regardless of their location in the client-server chain. Yes,
> things can be mis-used. 

yes, but there's a difference between technologies that are accidentally
misused and technologies whose primary purpose seems to be abusive.
 
> You might consider Ad insertion a mis-use others
> who get reduced cost ISP because of them might feel differently.

check out the Opera browser or the Eudora mail reader.  there are other ways 
to put advertisements on somebody's screen without corrupting the content.

Keith

p.s. so if the ISP uses opes to insert advertisements, can I as a customer
of that ISP also use opes to remove them?   if you say no, I claim you're
being unfair by putting the ISP's interest over *both* that of the content
provider and the consumer.  if you say yes, I claim that opes is a useless
technology that serves only to increase operational complexity and to sell
faster cpus.