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A comment on RFC 7258 – Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack. Parent comment

Re:RFC 7258 – Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack by XorNot on Monday June 30, 2014 @08:29PM (#7968567)
> This isn't normal IP, it's new IP. Moreover, using a relay would be optional (just encrypting the source address would give 90% of the benefit) and the worst case for having chosen one that isn't a router on the preferred route is that the packet would take a mildly suboptimal path to the destination.

"Mildly suboptimal" is the difference between playable latency in online gaming and unplayable. It's the difference between VOIP and video calling working and not working.

Your sweeping those issues away under the guise of "probably not so bad" yet we've had decades of experience finding out that, yeah, they are that bad which is why the modern internet has ended up the way it is.

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Re:RFC 7258 – Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:25AM (#7969650)
Your argument is that we can't have an optional feature that provides stronger anonymity because when you use it there could be a few ms of latency that would be intolerable to some applications that aren't required to use it?
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