Re: Opt-In document posted

> I just posted "Requirements for Wholesale Opt-In" at
> http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/RegionalOptIn/OptInReqs.pdf
>
> Abstract:
>
> This document outlines requirements for a strong wholesale opt-in mechanism
> for GENI.  When fully deployed it would permit GENI experimenters to request
> that ISPs redirect traffic from a huge population of innocent users through
> GENI infrastructure.  These users are innocent in the sense that they do not
> have to do anything at all to participate, and might not even be aware that
> they are doing so.  Key to wholesale opt-in is that it fully engages the
> Institutional Review Board (IRB) process and that all participants are
> motivated by their own self interests to do the right thing.  It does not
> require ``selling'' GENI to application developers or anybody other than
> network researchers.
>
> Since the ISPs bear a disproportionate share of the risk with this technique,
> the ISPs are granted additional controls, implemented in an ``ISP Daemon''
> that serve to isolate the ISPs' critical core routers from GENI.
>
> When this approach is fully mature we expect it to be sufficiently robust
> where NSF might include GENI opt-in language in research solicitations across
> the entire foundation.  This could bring as much traffic to GENI as is
> currently carried in aggregate by all of today's production research and
> education backbones.
>
> --
> I consider this document to still open for additions and improvements.
> Comments welcome.  Ideally it would include input from the entire OptIn WG.
>
> This is one of my deliverables: can somebody clue me into all the
> places that this should be posted?
>
> Thanks,
> --MM--
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