mrbluze writes:
"A modified HTTP protocol is being proposed (the proposal is funded by AT&T) which would allow ISP's to decrypt and re-encrypt traffic as part of day to day functioning in order to save money on bandwidth through caching. The draft document states:
To distinguish between an HTTP2 connection meant to transport "https" URIs resources and an HTTP2 connection meant to transport "http" URIs resource, the draft proposes to 'register a new value in the Application Layer Protocol negotiation (ALPN) Protocol IDs registry specific to signal the usage of HTTP2 to transport "http" URIs resources: h2clr.
The proposal is being criticized by Lauren Weinstein in that it provides a false sense of security to end users who might believe that their communications are actually secure. Can this provide an ISP with an excuse to block or throttle HTTPS traffic?"
(Score: 3, Informative) by Sir Garlon on Monday February 24 2014, @06:40PM
I totally agree with your firm defense of net neutrality, but I think you are mistaken about the days of insufficient bandwidth being "gone." It's pretty clear from the kerfuffle between Verizon and Netflix [arstechnica.com] that there is not enough capacity for today's video traffic. The bottleneck has moved from the endpoints to the internals of the network, but there will probably always be performance bottlenecks.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by sfm on Monday February 24 2014, @06:55PM
"It's pretty clear from the kerfuffle between Verizon and Netflix that there is not enough capacity for today's video traffic"
Yes, but what is the requirement that Netflix outbound video be sent HTTPS ?? Or are we just setting up for a time when all internet traffic is HTTPS ?
(Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Monday February 24 2014, @07:06PM
I didn't mean to suggest that Netflix traffic in particular needs to be HTTPS, only that Netflix traffic demonstrates that bandwidth is still limited. This was in reply to GP saying "we don't need caching because the days of dial-up are over." Dial-up is gone but network constraints are still real, that was my only point.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ezber Bozmak on Monday February 24 2014, @11:58PM
It's only limited because Verizon deliberately underprovisions. I don't think it is reasonable to consider willfull mismanagement as evidence of a resource shortage.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Monday February 24 2014, @07:23PM
Then the problem is Netflix, and not a few tiny gifs and logos that the ISP can avoid fetching. This will save exactly nothing.
Netflix is best fixed by moving content to the ISPs network (which is exactly what they are doing), not by futzing around with the other traffic.
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