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Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:28:44 +0200



On 3/26/21 23:00, Mark Andrews wrote:

There are more smart phones in use in the world today the world than can be addressed by IPv4. Complaining about lack 
of IPv6 deployment has been legitimate for a long time. Telcos shouldn’t have to deploy NATs. Homes shouldn’t have to 
deploy NATs. Businesses shouldn’t have to deploy NATs.

NATs produce a second class Internet.  We have had to lived with a second class Internet for so long that most don’t 
know what they are missing.

Well, it's simple - apps will continue to route around the inadequacies of infrastructure; even more so, over the next 10 years.

Mark.


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