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Story: RIP Net neutrality?

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How about beating down spam and botnets, block non unicast traffic, block inherently insecure and chatty protocols like SMB and keeping out overhead like PR hyped Sender ID out first? That would save a bundle in more then one way.

Standaardization organizations could focus more on the optimization of protocols so that they become more (bandwidth) efficient. As well as software vendors that push out applications that are above being chatty. Certainly some standaard organization could certify how Internet (bandwidth) friendly a certain application or solution is and hand out a nice logo the vendor in question can put on display for marketing purposes if things check out.

It all adds up you see and the less overhead put out on the wire in the first place the more bandwith and all will be available for more meaningfull purposes. Given certain reports there seems to be more increasing undesired and even unwanted traffic on the Internet then the year before. So why not invest in cutting that down first and then see where we stand?

In other words, first get the basics right before considering investing huge amounts of money that'll only add to the complexity and thus make the next logical step even more difficult. I mean, why set yourself up for continues symptom fighting?

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