[pfraze]

I'm really not sure. I talked a bit at the end of the post about my ambivalence about the term federation for the networking model.

[Randor]

No worries. We faced some of the the same choices when we were designing the Windows 10 Delivery Optimization service. We initially based it off the Bittorrent protocol with a modified BEP30. I think MSDN just says "Cloud Managed". ;)