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Mark Baugher wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > > Hi, all, > > Has anyone raised the potential need for fair-sharing in home gateways? > I.e., to prevent a single home user from swamping out another home user? > >> Non-technological solutions are often more useful in the home. If one user >> is mom and the other user is Johnny, then mom will tell Johnny to shut down >> the bittorrent so she can do her work. We saw that in an ethnographic >> study >> of home users last year. We can rely on social controls for home >> networking >> and should consider how to make use of them. That works only when Mom knows Johnny is doing something like that. Further, I don't see why social controls are useful when a trivial mechanism is sufficient. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqAKzoACgkQE5f5cImnZruDrgCeKhwSE1AEUyKh55Dc/CCaU8gr 0moAoNMagcrG8dRvPuUXZQl7hqZJi0r8 =7HuG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
