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

Fri Mar 26 22:31:09 UTC 2021

On 3/26/21 23:30, borg at uu3.net wrote:

> 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.

Yep - infrastructure is now implied, to the extent that customers even 
forget who are they paying for connectivity.

> 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?

As long as infrastructure continues to dilly-dally, software will fill 
in the gaps, even if it may cause more breakage in the eyes of the 
networking purists.

Mark.