[cap-talk] Price of resource accountability

[James A. Donald]

Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> This question makes the assumption that resource accountability is
> primarily useful for limiting denial of service attacks.  I think this
> is a weak justification for resource accountability.  A stronger
> justification, I think, is that good resource accountability means
> that it is possible to more accurately enforce resource distribution
> policies, and provide information to resource principals about the
> amount of resources available to them.  This is one of the main
> observations of the Viengoos work.

Google's new browser is supposed to report on which web pages are 
sucking up unreasonable amounts of resources.  I often have a very large 
number of web pages open at once, making it difficult to determine which 
web page is bringing my system to a grinding halt.

Having determined what web site is responsible, I would promptly 
blacklist it.