This sort of development seems good, not exactly from an moral point of view, but from the point of view of long-term reliability of the internet. The IP proto

This sort of development seems good, not exactly from an moral point of view, but from the point of view of long-term reliability of the internet. The IP protocols have some expectation of end-to-end packet delivery. Over time we found ways in which networks could be kept "working" with this requirement relaxed. Except what could be known to "work" was just whatever was tested by the manufacturers of various middle-boxes, making change and development of new ways of solving problems harder than it should be. The less visibility middle-boxes have into what the the traffic is, the less they are able to selectively screw things up and the internet will be more reliable for it.