[AusNOG] Consensus from the IETF 88 Technical Plenary - Internet hardening

[Narelle]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2013, at 9:17 AM, George Fong <george at lateralplains.com> wrote:
>> 3 "THE IETF SHOULD STRIVE FOR END-TO-END ENCRYPTION EVEN WHEN THERE ARE
>> MIDDLE BOXES IN THE PATH."
>
> "… as if millions of DPI vendors suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
>
> I can't say I'm disappointed in this resolution. Should have happened a long time ago.

Much of DPI uses pattern matching and other techniques to determine
what the flows are, so it will not terrify them completely.

I imagine that particular arms race will continue until something
changes just like every other arms race...


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