It occurs to me that a protocol of this type might well have been used to effect by the recently reired governor of a nearby state to ensure that his communications were in strict compliance with certain regulations that enforce certain geographic routing restrictions.
Sent from my GoodLink Wireless Handheld (www.good.com) -----Original Message----- From: Fred Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 03:58 PM Pacific Standard Time To: Bernard Aboba Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote: > The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has further compounded > the problem by creating interoperable standards for security, which > have enabled hosts on the Internet to protect traffic end-to-end or > hop-by-hop. This has not only harmed vendor profitability by > requiring vendors to interoperate with each other, but by enabling > users to take ownership of their own security without the approval > of operators or governmental authorities, criminal activity, > terrorism, and juvenile delinquincy have flourished. > > While these issues have long been recognized by the U.N. Working > Group on Internet Governance, until recently, the IETF has shown > little interest in solving these problems. I'm hoping this comment is tongue-in-cheek. If not, I'd encourage you to review http://www.arcchart.com/blueprint/ show.asp?id=428. I'll quote its final paragraph here: > The culmination of attractive data pricing, improved usability and > mobile demand for Web 2.0 services, together with increased > availability of 3G devices is brewing to form the prefect data > storm - a tipping point where the majority of a subscriber base > accesses the data network with regularity. This is something which > operators like Vodafone have fought hard to achieve but, while they > have deployed the networks and supplied the devices, it is not > their walled-gardens or headline-grabbing media partnerships which > are causing the data winds to blow. It is the likes of MySpace, > Facebook, Google, Flickr, Jaiku, YouTube and Flirtomatic which are > seeding the stirring clouds. As data pricing erodes along the same > path travelled by voice, operators must now identify ways to tap > into revenues from web services or else be left exposed when the > data hurricane arrives. > In essence, it reviews Vodaphone's semi-annual numeric announcement in November, and concludes that the growth of Vodaphone - which is very nice, includes a 7% increase in voice revenue, a 9% increase in SMS revenue, and 49% growth in data revenue, the vast majority of which does not derive from Vodaphone's walled garden. One data point is just that - anecdotal evidence. But it points in a direction that market research analysts throughout the industry (such as were discussed in Marshall Eubank's talk this evening) are also pointing. Since when are walled garden vendors (like I-Mode, which failed as a business last year after delivering one of the most-used walled gardens to date) shooting any feet but their own in promoting walled gardens? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFH2bEZbjEdbHIsm0MRAoCzAKCSxjy+SRxb+7boVMQp/mLO5+ZfuwCfeNWF iskKt86Jdcc5vXSWTiro3vk= =wLPp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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