[123921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 in Education Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xiaoliang Zhao)
Wed Mar 17 23:40:34 2010
In-Reply-To: <1268868062.5727.652.camel@karl>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:39:54 +0800
From: Xiaoliang Zhao <xleonzhao@gmail.com>
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> End-to-end transparency means that IPv6 supports peer to peer naturally.
> That means everyone (students, teachers, parents etc) can talk to each
> other more easily without having to involve third parties, and can talk
> to each other from anywhere on the globe. Less mediation, more direct,
> more distributed.
>
> The death of NAT will mean that more and more stuff will be hosted
> locally - on teaching machines, student laptops, home PCs, mobile
> phones. I think we will see fragmentation and distribution of things
> that are now monolithic. Things like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and so
> on will be reduced to special purpose indexing services - or will die.
> Why use them when you can have all your stuff on your mobile phone,
> accessible 24/7, wherever you are?
Good points.
Leon
CERNET2 network engineer
http://www.cernet2.edu.cn/index_en.htm