Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Strainu
<strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2012/6/8 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
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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change! We attach this unique number to all your Internet
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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