Re:AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical servic...
by throw0101c on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:28PM
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> That's exactly the point; they market it as if it would make a plethora of new and innovative things happen but in reality they will allow none of it.
How much innovation and applications have been stymied by artificial network-layer barriers:
> First is actually a more subtle issue... the Skype peer-to-peer network architecture elected certain nodes to be "supernodes", to help maintain the index of peers as well as handle parts of the NAT/firewall traversal for other peers.
How much innovation and applications have been stymied by artificial network-layer barriers:
> First is actually a more subtle issue... the Skype peer-to-peer network architecture elected certain nodes to be "supernodes", to help maintain the index of peers as well as handle parts of the NAT/firewall traversal for other peers.
* https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T9f6a724f4bcd6616-M0e99aba...
* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/skype...
CPE gear has gotten better hole punching over time (PCP, UPnP), but one still has to futz around with STUN/ICE/TURN.
We've invented entirely new protocols (QUIC) because of middleware boxes blocking things (SCTP, DCCP) and generally getting in the way.