[e2e] Detecting middle boxes

[John Lazzaro]

> Melinda Shore <mshore at cisco.com>
>
> Like it or no the economics behind networking have changed so much
> in the past 25 years that it's inevitable that it's affected the
> technology.  There are actually now more pressures against 
> transparency than in favor of it, from an economic perspective.

The death of enlightened self-interest has unintended consequences.

The same folks (be they network operators or enterprise CIOs) who 
set policy that hinders the development of new applications that  
use peer-to-peer UDP, are the folks whose businesses are hurt when
the lack of new applications results in sluggish network growth and
(indirectly) sluggish growth in technology goods and services, and
(more indirectly) sluggish growth in goods and services of all sorts.

We in the research community aren't doing a good job educating the
participants up and down the value chain about this issue ... to our
own detriment.

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John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley
lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu     www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro
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