In message <[email protected]>, Manish
Karir writes:
>well I believe the question is more along the lines of: if ISP X uses
>spoofer or caches or whatever to give you better performance(thruput or
>security or whatever you are measuring performance as) then you will
>continue to use them. If their service to you is unacceptable then
>you as the user can choose to switch to ISP Y. The bottom line is
>will the free market support for intelligence in the middle applications
>be sufficient for them to survive...
>if ISP X notices 10 big customers switching to someone else believe me he
>will quickly drop spoofing.
This assumes that the customer understand the source of error.
One of the issues that has cropped up is that customers have expectations
of their ISP. The introduction of hidden services like spoofers that
may not conform with customer expectations but are not made visible to
the customer means the customer may not get the service he/she expects but
not know the cause. (E.g., the customer may switch and get another ISP
that does the same hidden thing, and see the same problems, and blame the
technology not the ISPs).
Craig
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