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Mark Baugher wrote: ... > 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. Users already have many similar things - DHCP, NAT, SSID default to announce, etc. - "on" by default, and they allow the user to shut it off or alter the configuration. This is no different. It's really not a huge leap. It just needs to be included in the requirements, and defaulted to "ON" like most of these other things. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqAWeIACgkQE5f5cImnZrvyVgCZAaWql8Ga6wG8yETB4exXyuV1 k1IAn0gNf8pgw5qEH0otJ8WhMxNyh5Ft =Mxmt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
