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

Fri Mar 26 21:30:11 UTC 2021

Oh, sorry to disappoint you, but they are not missing anything..
Internet become a consumer product where data is provided by
large corporations similary to TV now. Your avarage Joe consumer
does NOT care about NAT and that he cant run services or he does NOT
have full e2e communication.

Yes, you are right, NAT was a second class internet for a while but
now it seems that we cannot live without it anymore :)
I dont really see other way how I can connect LAN to internet now.
Using public IPs? Thats so terrible idea. How can I be el-cheappo
dual-homed then?

---------- Original message ----------

From: Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org>
To: Andy Ringsmuth <andy at andyring.com>
Cc: Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:00:38 +1100

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. -- 
Mark Andrews