Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

[James Seng <jseng at pobox.org.sg>]

Why should the users be limited to what IT managers decide is good or bad?

Internet is build on dumb network, smart terminal. End-users are suppose 
to be able to put up their own services, not just running some apps. 
This has been the Internet principles and have serves us well so far.

(The telcos model, OTOH, is the inverse, assuming smart network and very 
very dumb terminal.)

-James Seng

> What applications that people want to run--and the IT managers would
> want to enable--are actually inhibited by NAT? It seems to me that
> most of the applications inconvenienced by NAT are ones that IT
> managers would want to screen off anyway.