Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2012/6/8 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
No one has to break the loop. The loop will break itself. Either enough people will get sick of NAT to cause demand for IPv6, or they won't.
That one way of seeing things, but I fear it's a bit simplistic and naive. People won't "get sick of NAT", since most of them don't know what NAT is anyway. They'll just notice that "the speed sucks" or that they can't edit Wikipedia because their public IP was blocked. But they won't know IPv6 is (part of) the solution unless someone tells them to, by events like the IPv6 day.
Or by the ISP which provides IPv6 advertising those faster speeds or decreased privacy.
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There are numerous reasons to have fixed IPv6 addresses per connection. For example, I have right now around 6 devices supporting IPv6 at home and I do connect between them internally (for example one of the is printer - my laptop prints on my printer no matter whether it is at home or somewhere else provided it has IPv6). You *DON'T* want to renumber your whole home network every time your ISP changes your IPv6 prefix.
Just because some people got away with the stuff they do on the Internet because their ISP changes their IPv4 address every so and then does not mean that dynamic IPv4 address provides *any* privacy.
I could argue that current scheme w/dynamic IPv4 provides less privacy in the long term for the user. One of the reasons for that is it is difficult to run your own infrastructure (like mail server, web server) on one's own residential connection and you have to rely on external (called "cloud" today) providers for that with obvious privacy consequences of that.
The whole point of IPv6 is to give the choice not to use external providers - you become part of the "cloud", not just a dumb consumer.
//Saper