IPB196: Is End-to-End Connectivity the Right Goal?

One of the early design principles of the Internet was end-to-end connectivity: that is, every device on the Internet would be publicly addressable, and every device could share its resources or provide services. That design principle wasn&#8217;t achieved with IPv4 for a variety of reasons (including address scarcity, and many network owners not wanting endpoints<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/ipv6-buzz/ipb196-is-end-to-end-connectivity-the-right-goal/" title="ReadIPB196: Is End-to-End Connectivity the Right Goal?">... Read more &#187;</a>