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I really don't think we get to decide if we allow this or not. A company like Cloudflare or any other edge computing provider is easily in the position to make

I really don't think we get to decide if we allow this or not. A company like Cloudflare or any other edge computing provider is easily in the position to make this happen, for completely innocent and valid reasons. What I'd like to emphasis is what I'm suggesting will be the unwanted side-effect of this type of peer-to-peer communication.

theamk 6y ago
It'd still be pretty centralized though -- it will be like bittorrent, not like gnutella. Organizations want statistics and usage data. People want to be able to connect from anywhere, even when far from home. Saving bandwidth is useful, but I see no future for de-centralized control. The control connection is cheap and allows a lot of things that would be hard with decentralized control -- health monitoring, staged rollouts, instance security updates. You can see this trend even today -- there are all service meshes like Tailscale, BeyondCorp-like distributed systems, hey, even Google Wifi -- which have central control and distributed data. So even if something strange emerges, once it starts taking up non-trivial resources, it will be logged by central server, detected (by humans) as a bug, and killed with a routine firmware update.