> Especially now that we live in an IPv6 world, why not just run everything publicly. Push security all the way down to the applications themselves, and rely on

> Especially now that we live in an IPv6 world, why not just run everything publicly. Push security all the way down to the applications themselves, and rely on the software development lifecycle process to catch security issues. Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if software just didn't have any bugs? You got the correlation backwards: Software isn't garbage because we can rely on the band-aids. The band-aids were invented because all software is garbage.