On 9/5/21 3:28 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
I looked up CGN's this morning and the thing that struck me the most was losing port forwarding. It's probably a small thing to most people but losing it means to get an incoming session it always has to be mediated
by something on the outside. Yuck. So I hope that is not what the future hold, though it probably does.
I think we are heading into a world where Internet is going to be bifurcated with "/on/ the Internet" (with globally routed IP address(es)) or "/access/ /to/ the Internet" (with one or more layers of CGN). I think that the vast majority of consumers would be content with the latter while a small minority will demand the former. Content hosting will almost definitely require the former. (Wiggle room is for other arrangements that can be made.) -- Grant. . . . unix || die