[Openpacket-devel] OpenPacket demo comments

[Richard B. <tao...@gm...>]

David -- phenomenal job.  These are my immediate comments as I try the site:

-- Love the RSS feeds!

-- I assume people can't access the URL for an unapproved feed (say
http://roach4.no-ip.org:8000/viewfile/25 if 1-24 are already approved)
?

-- When approving traces, can there be some sort of "approve with
comment" or "disapprove with comment" instead of just Y or N?

-- It would be helpful for moderators to be able to review a
Moderation History log to see who made what decisions, and when.

-- We need a "remoderation" feature.  A moderator might make a
mistake, or miss something.  So we'll have to be able to remove a
trace, or maybe add it in later.

-- When browsing files, it would be nice to have a Rating based on
user feedback.

-- Each trace should have a counter showing number of downloads, if possible.

-- Could you set some kind of marker on the trace indicating if the
trace was  sanitized during upload or not?

-- When browsing files, sorting on various columns would be cool.

-- It would be neat to make trace uploader IDs a linkable feature that
would show all traces uploaded by that user ID.

-- When looking at individual traces, the trace uploader ID is
currently a link to their email address.  I would prefer removing that
to foil spammers.  It would also be good to instead link to a page
built for the individual user.  Maybe that page would also list all of
their uploads, as mentioned earlier?

-- I'm starting to wonder how best to organize these traces.  We
probably want some means of letting users indicate their idea of what
the trace is.  We probably want the moderators to make the final
determination.

-- We might want to stick with really generic categories, like
"normal," "suspicious," "malicious," or "unknown."

-- Are you saving any information about the traces once your parser
reads them?  For example, is it possible to search for traces
involving IP X or port Y or protocol Z?

-- We may have to end up having the traces available mainly via
queries.  In other words, trying to define rigid categories might be
doomed.

-- I'll have to develop some disclaimers, FAQs, etc.  I also need to
work on sponsors.

This is really awesome.  I think having this concrete site will help
us answer lots of questions.

Thank you,

Richard