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RE: Fighting towards MORE decentralization...
Yeah, you are right. We should start looking at how to move everything to IPv6 and how to manage the "authenticity" of IPs to prevent impostors' impersonation, etc... although it will be much harder for the user, because of how IPv6 adds up in terms of complexity.
Several problems in my view that create the situation:
- DNS dependency as a way to exploit the lack of IPv4 addresses.
- IPv4 with SSL is too expensive because of the lack of Public IP addresses (solution became the above problem)
- IPv6 is too complex to use as a human-readable form with SSL certs (and not using DNS).
The closest alternative that I see potentially becoming a standard is IPFS... or something like that.
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DNS is a must. There's no way around it. You need DNS. Nobody is going to remember 121.82.124.189 or 2602:fb95:320:3234:5f4::a or 2600::1 for your site when your competition has ezname.com.
Going IPv6 only for end users applications isn't feasible yet, I agree, but definitely possible for machine comms. Most cloud providers support it and getting it on business plans is being more and more of a reality. The sheer cost of IPv4 addresses will drive more and more to IPv6 as we have seen.
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