IPv6 in Education Question

Thu Mar 18 03:39:54 UTC 2010

> End-to-end transparency means that IPv6 supports peer to peer naturally.
> That means everyone (students, teachers, parents etc) can talk to each
> other more easily without having to involve third parties, and can talk
> to each other from anywhere on the globe. Less mediation, more direct,
> more distributed.
>
> The death of NAT will mean that more and more stuff will be hosted
> locally - on teaching machines, student laptops, home PCs, mobile
> phones. I think we will see fragmentation and distribution of things
> that are now monolithic. Things like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and so
> on will be reduced to special purpose indexing services - or will die.
> Why use them when you can have all your stuff on your mobile phone,
> accessible 24/7, wherever you are?

Good points.

Leon
CERNET2 network engineer
http://www.cernet2.edu.cn/index_en.htm