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Despite his conclusion, he likely answers it here: • The Client / Server CDN-centric Internet does not require each endpoint to have a globally unique permanen
by ec109685 8y ago
Despite his conclusion, he likely answers it here:
• The Client / Server CDN-centric Internet does not require each
endpoint to have a globally unique permanent address
• Addresses are increasingly being used in the role of ephemeral session tokens, not as persistent endpoint identifiers
If you have to support ipv4 anyway and the benefit of ipv6 for your services is not high enough, why bother?
- Eech0Shu 8y agoThat only applies if you have a very myopic view on what the internet does. Sure, CDN traffic may dominate by volume but it is far from the only traffic on the internet. P2P traffic is still significant. web ⊂ internet
- ec109685 8y agoP2P works through NATs as long as you are willing to signal through a central servers, e.g. discussed here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.05606 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.05606