David R Oran wrote:
HGI and others (e.g. DLNA) do in fact have specs for this kind of
stuff. I'll refrain from commenting on what I think of their quality.
I think the group might consider taking some of this on, however I
urge caution for a number of reasons including:
- focus for the group
- bleed-over into net neutrality issues
- service definition and provisioning of device queues by the service
provider versus the consumer.
I'm not sure what Homegate has to do with "net neutrality issues." If
net neutrality means anything at all, it's the demand by certain private
network operators, most notably Google, to have unfettered access to
first/last mile residential broadband networks. Google wants to bypass
the public Internet and install edge caches directly on the L2 network,
in other words. Aren't private network-to-private network issues are
outside the scope of IETF?
Under other definitions of net neutrality, ISP behavior is circumscribed
in various ways, but end-user behavior isn't. Given that home gateways
are (at least to some extent) end-user controlled devices, NN also
wouldn't apply to them under this more fuzzy definition.
NN is in any case a US issues, so I don't see why the international
community should care about it. What am I missing?
RB
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Richard Bennett
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