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> From: "Jim Shankland" <[email protected]> > Nicely put. Of course, that model does not correspond to reality, nor > is it ever likely to. Traffic is always going to be controlled, > filtered, redirected, and translated at administrative boundaries. > Global, packet-level, end-to-end connectivity is dead, until somebody > comes up with a compelling argument for why a Windows PC in an > Internet cafe in Sofia, Bulgaria needs unfettered, packet-level access > to a Coke machine in a break room at Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto. Or why a team of gamers need to be able to coordinate n-way traffic between them without each of them having listeners Or why a protocol would need to embed addressing into the datastream Not like any of that will ever happen.
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