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

[Markus Hofmann]

Mark Nottingham wrote:
 
> Mark Nottingham wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > and everything I've seen
> > indicates that interposition of services by access providers is by far
> > the largest market for this technology.
> 
> I should append 'on the open Internet' to that last statement. There are
> potential uses within private networks that would have an implicit trust
> relationship.

Yup. But coming back to the "open Internet" - I somehow disagree that
"interposition of services by access providers is by far the largest
market for this technology". I'd rather see more potential in
providing (explicit) services on behalf of the content providers
and/or the users. Think of all the applications and services that
currently run on the server and/or the user client: Dynamic assembling
of web pages at the server, virus scanning on the user's PC etc.
Enabling the provisioning of these services "at the edge" on behalf of
the content provider and/or users is the goal of OPES.

Thanks,
  Markus