Hi Klaas,

On Thursday 22 July 2010 at 13:05:45 Klaas Wierenga sent:
> On 7/22/10 11:33 AM, Toni Stoev wrote:
> 
> Toni,
> 
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 at 18:23:32 Toni Stoev sent:
> >> On Tuesday 20 July 2010 at 12:36:56 Javier Ubillos sent:
> >>> In the case where the service would be provided by random sites
> >>> on the Internet, well, it is already provided for free today, but
> >>> I don't know how it would scale (or how a business model would
> >>> work) if all hosts start registering names automatically.
> >>
> >> Many non-mobile service ISPs employ Dynamic DNS too. For inter-ISP
> >> roaming random/devoted sites are the solution. The model is quite
> >> analogous to the one with names.
> >
> > On Thursday 22 July 2010 at 00:19:31 Scott Weeks sent:
> >> Operators in the commercial area have to satisfy their customers
> >> and the lack of privacy will cause concern among customers.  It's
> >> already doing so or TOR and things like it wouldn't exist.  I
> >> believe this concern will only increase and not decrease over time.
> >> Thus the operators will care as it all drives the bottom line.
> >
> > Privacy depends on operators' loyalty. But having a choice of
> > identifier providers, we can rely on identity privacy, even having
> > only one connectivity provider.
> 
> I don't think the latter is very realistic. On the application layer, 
> sure, you can have any number of identity providers. But I don't think 
> it is likely that you will have a supplier of a network identifier that 
> is not your connectivity provider.

It would not be compulsory to have one, but if you would have the possibility 
to choose a remote network identity provider, your privacy would have more of a 
chance.
And choice is the advantage of the popular dynamic DNS service providers.

> Sure, I can imagine a world in which  
> TOR like companies will emerge that provide some sort of proxy and that 
> promise to keep your identity secret, but if you want to do that any any 
> significant scale you will run into problems. Let's not create a design 
> that forces us 10 years down the road to solve the GUPI-PII (global 
> unique persistent identifier - person identifiable information) 
> problem...... I am all for incremental design, but having a tight 
> coupling between humans and persistent identifiers is asking for trouble 
> imo.

I agree.

Toni

> Klaas
>
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