On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:34:52PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > That is why the stance that, "I have IPv4 so I don't need to do > anything" is not completely correct: it's not urgent for much of the > world at present, but we will get into a situation where either one > or both sides of a given IP conversation are behind multiple layers > of NAT that they don't control, and that's bad.
I recently came across a couple of articles that indicate that due to the issues I mentioned in this email, IPv6 is already faster than IPv4: https://www.retevia.net/fast/ …and that this has some interesting effects on the economics for carriers (ISPs) and content providers (e.g. web hosts and large retailers) of v6 vs v4: https://www.retevia.net/prisoner/ Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting