Re: ACTION-902 (Reprise) Summarise and prepare proposed resolutions on HTTPS link rewriting.

On 20 Mar 2009, at 09:23, Luca Passani wrote:

> Sean Patterson ha scritto:
>>
>> 2) PROPOSED RESOLUTION: In-network proxies MUST NOT rewrite links
>> without explicit prior agreement from the Content Provider
>>
>> -1.  It's not practical to get explicit permission from content
>> providers to do transformations.  It is too much effort and doesn't
>> scale.
>
> It is not practical to ask for permission to enter someone's house.  
> It's too much effort. Breaking into it, though, is easier and  
> "scales".
A rather poor analogy.  One would think breaking into a house would  
require more effort than knocking on a door.  UI aso don't think  
breaking into peoples houses scales.  Even the biggest mastermind  
crook can't break into millions of homes in a short people. Braking  
through someone's door also damages their property.  Serving them  
transcoded content doesn't damage the user in any way more than  
serving them un-transcoded content.
>
> Luca
>
>

David Storey

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Received on Friday, 20 March 2009 08:39:23 UTC