I sure hope you are wrong about where things are going. Because the
logical consequence of the placement and addressing picture you paint is
that all innovation in applications and uses of the Internet comes from
incumbent players who have the leverage and resources to be present at
almost all "insides". That would seem very unfortunate.
Yours,
Joel
On 12/16/2021 2:27 PM, Geoff Huston wrote:
ders build and operate their own dedicated transmission infrastructure to
interconnect their data centres. This cloud we are all using is not a shared
cloud, but a collection of dedicated cloudlets that are not constructed on a
sharing model at the packet level. If we don't want to share a common
transmission resource, then why do we need globally unique addresses to use in
IP packet headers? Locally unique addresses would do just as well.
This question could be posed in the context of the evolution of NAT deployments
in today's Internet. NATs were originally seen as a way for edge networks to
share a single provider IP address across multiple devices own the home
network. This is still the case, but address scarcity has also pushed the
access ISP to deploy NATs at the external edge of the access network, us
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