IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4

Re:IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4 by throw0101b on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:39AM (#41924443)

> I think it’d be nice to self-host things to, but it’s inaccurate and even a bit insulting to claim that the millions of people creating content on the internet today don’t exist.

It's not just about self-hosting, but peer-to-peer clients as well.

When Skype originally came out it was P2P, but because of NAT they created (ran?) "super-nodes" that could do things like STUN/TURN/ICE. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to (e.g.) communicate with folks without a central authoritative server that could be warranted by various regimes?

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Re:IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4 by umanwizard on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:31AM (#41926063)

I agree! I was just taking issue with the overly broad claim that being behind NAT only lets you consume, not create.

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