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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by runeks on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:19AM (#14987344)
I’m not sure I follow why this would be desirable. As a sender of a packet, why would I care who routes my (encrypted) packet to its destination? Why would I want to restrict the number of possible routes from me to the receiver?
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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design by topranks on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:22AM (#14989352)
Latency, jitter, not wanting to go via country X where national security agency Y will see it......

Mostly your right though.

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