[governance] FW: [] Fwd: IPv4 Address Exhaustion Milestone & Comcast Starts DOCSIS IPv6 Trial

[Roland Perry]

In message <4D4DF42F.7070601 at cavebear.com>, at 17:06:55 on Sat, 5 Feb 
2011, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> writes

>The potential benefit of a large single address space and full 
>end-to-end connectivity will tend to be overlooked by the vast majority 
>of network users who perceive the internet as a land of applications 
>rather than of IP-to-IP packet connectivity.

Perhaps that's because they instinctively recognise their Internet-based 
freedom of expression is facilitated largely by one-to-many 
communications, rather than one-to-one. And that the "many" aspect is 
facilitated by applications - whether that's Majordomo, Facebook or a 
blogging site.

Of course, they still need that packet-by-packet connectivity to the 
application, and therein perhaps lies the success of Twitter, which is 
an excellent store-and-forward system for those with intermittent 
connectivity.

>When viewed as a platform for applications, invisible application level 
>gateways between separate IPv4 networks will be no more 
>complained-about than the invisible SMS gateways between mobile 
>providers are complained of by Twitter users.

And those (mainly) invisible NAT gateways between them and their 
connectivity provider.
-- 
Roland Perry
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