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I honestly can't think of any scenario where users* would need to contact a private-range IP, over HTTPS, using an untrusted ISP. * Note that tech users can si

I honestly can't think of any scenario where users* would need to contact a private-range IP, over HTTPS, using an untrusted ISP. * Note that tech users can simply be told that they need to use HTTPS over HTTP explicitly. More importantly, my proposal does not affect those scenarios, should they exist. > Especially, there is nothing "local" about them They're used for local area networks probably over 99.9% of the time.

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> More importantly, my proposal does not affect those scenarios, should they exist. Really, I am even less sure now what your proposal actually is. Could you explain? > They're used for local area networks probably over 99.9% of the time. If you count the global internal networks of companies as "local area networks", sure ...