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The IPv6 Transition

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dopylitty ◴[] No.41899910[source]
I gotta say don't sleep on this article thinking it's just another article about IPv6 adoption stats.

There's a lot of interesting thought in the second half about what the Internet fundamentally is and where it's going. The author argues that the use of TLS and SNI has fundamentally changed the internet from a number based routing network to a network based on DNS names and SNI where the numbers involved don't really matter anymore.

> Where is this heading in the longer term? We are pushing everything out of the network and over to applications. Transmission infrastructure is becoming an abundant commodity. Network sharing technology (multiplexing) is decreasingly relevant. We have so much network and computing resources that we no longer have to bring consumers to service delivery points. Instead, we are bringing services towards consumers and using the content frameworks to replicate servers and services With so much computing and storage the application is becoming the service, rather than just a window to a remotely operated service.

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1. Peteragain ◴[] No.41903910[source]
Yes, I read the article as well!

I'd still love to have a dedicated IP address associated to the house so I didn't need a contract to dish up a blog & photos for my 3 friends. I'm sure P2P would make it much harder to extract money from people.