I guess I may have a different view of who an end user is.  For example, I see 
the people working in a bank as end users.  But, I realize that this has never 
been the general view.

From: QUIC <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lucas Pardue
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 3:38 PM
To: Border, John <[email protected]>
Cc: IETF QUIC WG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re QUIC-enabled Service Differentiation for Traffic Engineering

Hi John,

Wearing no hats
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023, 12:23 Border, John, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
My initial reaction at the meeting was privacy leak and I was expecting the 
hard negative feedback that happened.  In theory, using a path aware 
application implies consent of the user to trade some privacy for some other 
benefit.  In practice, though, the user is probably not aware of what the 
application is doing.
Thinking about it some more, though,…
The QUIC working group is very focused on individual users.  But, there are 
other uses of the Internet.  A business might very well both be aware of and 
want the trade for path optimization re cost, latency, etc.  In fact, the 
specific application might have been selected for that reason.  I don’t know 
that the specific mechanism in the document is the right one.  (It might or 
might not be.)  I just wanted to point out there are use cases where privacy 
might matter less than other considerations.

The focus on end users is consistent with RFC 8890 [1], produced by the IAB. Of 
particular interest to this thread may be section 4.3 and 4.4, which gives 
treatment to tussle between needs of stakeholders and handling conflict. There 
are links to various other documents there that folks may find informative.

Cheers
Lucas

[1] - 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890__;!!Emaut56SYw!zm0ssJfhRuwUEJid-J_knRm14B4lSMi9zLr_heasOeLiLaocgJbIjJ6rgatb_ta5bra-4xVAsqBCCDeAsL9OonH6gMeI$>

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