Eliot Lear wrote:
>
> >By appearing to make it legitimate (as RFC 1918 made NAT appear
> >legitimate). There is a possible way to deal with this though: require an
> >OPES box to obtain explicit consent from both ends before executing
> >any content manipulation.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> Why is it not acceptable to have one host or its owner approve of such a
> use?
Because both the content originator and the content receiver should be
able to veto (say) ad insertion.
> Consider a web farm. How do we decide whether such "legitimate"
> uses will be outweighed by "illegitimate" uses?
We can't make that judgement in a protocol design. All we can do is
provide functions. mo and others are saying we shouldn't even do that,
because they will be misused.
Brian
