* It's difficult to speculate here about the potential impact, but isn't another possibility that it would legitimize a mass-market of such products, particularly if such capabilities were introduced into clients and browsers?
That is definitely a goal. The people who are in favor of this, want commoditized offerings so that they can get it more cheaply, standardized, and with much less effort and expense on their part. Last time, I pointed out that this clear-text signaling could be used as additional leverage by captive portals (my example was passengers on a plane with inflight Wifi). If I were really twisted, I could imagine ISP’s (or operators) requiring this to put customers in the “high speed lane” or traverse a Big Firewall. Of course, purely for efficiency.
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