On 26 Jul 2010, at 12:58 , Scott Brim wrote: > Yes, the end user must be empowered. IMHO this isn't a tussle at all in the > real world. Government policy and laws, if nothing else, will require that > people not be required to reveal even their general location in order to > communicate at all, particularly if others can find out their location and > track them without their knowledge.
There is also a personal tussle whether one chooses to reveal more (or less) about oneself on some particular occasion. Good architecture enables users to make those tradeoffs. > And looking at Ran's mail ... I get packages delivered to me all the time > without revealing even the domain I'm in. They get sent to my department, > where they are "encapsulated" (new label stuck on the outside) and shipped to > me. We "pay for shipping" twice, but for correspondents that I rarely > interact with, and only for short times, this is less effort than going > through the overhead of optimizing the path. In your (IMHO: good) example, you reveal information to your "department" that you don't reveal to other folks. Various kinds of existing Internet-related proxies do similar functions. Again, there is a tradeoff here with costs (e.g. shipping costs increase, routing is sub-optimal and a bit delayed) and perceived benefits (e.g. reduction in effort, some degree of privacy/hiding). Good architecture enables users to make choices about those tradeoffs. I think it likely that different users will make different choices at different times. Cheers, Ran _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
