On Dec 4, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Bruce Perens <[email protected]> wrote:
> My main concerns are that this will harm the operation of the Internet and 
> take away user choice.

Okay, there are two very definite statements.   You should be able to give 
examples.

If your example for user choice is "a person in a country with a repressive 
government will not have choice," that's not good enough, because they already 
lack choice due to their government—it's not something we have the power to do 
anything about.

If your example for "harm the operation of the internet" is transparent 
caching, that point has been answered: define a protocol for caching that is 
not transparent, and allow the incentive structure around end users who benefit 
from that caching to motivate them to use it, rather than simply forcing them 
to use it in their own best interest.

Indeed, this precisely addresses the needs of users in the first case, since 
their government can simply require them to go through the non-transparent 
cache.   They will know they are being watched, the government will be able to 
watch them, and they will be able to access any content they feel safe 
accessing in the awareness that they are being watched as they do so.   
Everybody wins, for some value of "win."

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