If they were going to change anything, I think the LAN-only policy they employ for Enterprise and Education should probably be the default.
That said, instead of changing anything I'd so much rather see MS take this and run with it, working with ISPs to help them understand that this traffic should be exempt (or even rewarded as a bandwidth credit) because it'll lower ISP costs and improve customer satisfaction simlutaneously.
What I mean is that I'd love to see a scheme where ISPs only count any of your bandwidth that traverses their backbone. Or perhaps charged incrementally less per hop in the ISP architecture.
It seems like that would be neutral, simple, and sensible, though I'm not quite sure how peering and colocated caches would be treated. Probably the same as bandwidth for the end user since it's up to ISPs and content providers to do that.
Not charging for all customer-to-customer or customer-to-cache traffic is pretty neutral. In cable networks, customer-to-customer traffic may increase congestion rather than reducing it, though.
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If they were going to change anything, I think the LAN-only policy they employ for Enterprise and Education should probably be the default.
That said, instead of changing anything I'd so much rather see MS take this and run with it, working with ISPs to help them understand that this traffic should be exempt (or even rewarded as a bandwidth credit) because it'll lower ISP costs and improve customer satisfaction simlutaneously.
That's pretty much against net neutrality
What I mean is that I'd love to see a scheme where ISPs only count any of your bandwidth that traverses their backbone. Or perhaps charged incrementally less per hop in the ISP architecture.
It seems like that would be neutral, simple, and sensible, though I'm not quite sure how peering and colocated caches would be treated. Probably the same as bandwidth for the end user since it's up to ISPs and content providers to do that.
Not charging for all customer-to-customer or customer-to-cache traffic is pretty neutral. In cable networks, customer-to-customer traffic may increase congestion rather than reducing it, though.