On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:04:25 -0500 Dave Pooser <dave.na...@alfordmedia.com> wrote:
> > IPv6's fundamental goal is to restore end-to-end. > > For some. For many, IPv6's fundamental goal is to keep doing what we've been > doing without running out of addresses. The fact that the two camps have > orthogonal goals is probably part of the reason the rate of growth on IPv6 > is so slow. Well they should realise that end-to-end is what made the Internet the success in the first place. On the Original Internet, when you had an IP address, one moment you could be a client, another you could be a server, or another you could be a peer - or you could be any or all three roles at the same time. What role you wanted to play was completely and absolutely up to you - no third parties to ask permission of, no router upgrades involved. You just started the (client/server/peer-to-peer) software, and off you went. The applications exist at the edge of the Internet - in the software operating on the end-nodes. The Internet itself is supposed to be a dumb, best effort packet transport between the edges - nothing more. That is why the Original Internet was good at running any application you threw at it, including new ones - because it never cared what those applications were. It just tried to do it's job of getting packets from edge sources to edge destinations, regardless of what was in them.