WPD and Multiple Proxies

Hi there

proxies is on agenda for the httpbis Wednesday session in Honolulu.
WPD draft [1] will be presented and discussed, so here some input:

Users take the same device to multiple networks.  
Proxies that provide optimization (caching and content transformation) benefit a great deal from proximity to users.  
And the authority (in the WPD sense) might change between networks.

Roaming users are one example of who might disproportionately benefit from optimization.  Being able to configure a proxy while roaming without altering the configuration that is used while at home.  This is also potentially relevant for users who migrate between cellular networks and WiFi.

Users that select a proxy for optimization might still be required to accept the use of a proxy at their workplace or captive network of choice.

The trick here is balancing the requirements of different use cases.
  
Proxies that provide privacy features need to be used exclusively, otherwise they could risk packet sniffing or pervasive monitoring by other nodes and risk the same sort of exposure that brought down the Silk Road.  That's at odds with this scenario and we'd obviously need measures to ensure that this doesn't fail catastrophically.

Any thoughts from the group would be great.

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Salvatore

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-web-proxy-desc-01

Received on Monday, 3 November 2014 13:26:44 UTC