Re: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

[Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>

> ...
> Option 4 is not a separate option - it's a possible content
> provider reaction to whichever of 1, 2 or 3 takes place. As
> Mark pointed out, it has major scaling and trust model issues.
>
> If I'm right and OPES-like boxes are inevitable, maybe the
> IETF needs to start pre-emptive work on Option 4.

> ...
> > What about option 4, "information publishers who don't like interference
> > by transport providers use TLS/SSL to enforce actual end-to-end
> > transmission of the content" ? As we gain experience in implementing
> > TLS, this is a certainly a possibility!


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Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com