On 10/08/2009, at 7:14 AM, Joe Touch wrote:
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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.
I expect that you will need policy for any such mechanism - if for
no other reason to allow the user to shut it off when desired. That's
what is non-trivial on an unmanaged network. There's not much that's
simply on a home network in my experience.
Mark
Joe
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