On Thursday 8. July 2010 18.37.54 Bernd Stramm wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:21:24 +0200
> 
> Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 08/07/2010 18:18, Bernd Stramm wrote:
> > > Where it does come in is that private users today cannot be reached
> > > by IPv4 unless they go through servers. This is different with
> > > IPv6, at least at the moment.
> > 
> > So what you want is something like link-local messaging at a global
> > scale?
> 
> Right, I want normal global IP addresses as originally intended. The
> NAT stuff was added later because of lack of IPv4 address space.
> 
> This works today if you have IPv6.

IPv6 will not remove firewalls. People will have unique addresses, but 
reachability is not a guarantee.

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