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razighter777yesterday at 11:33 PM0 repliesview on HN

The workarounds we need to enable P2P communication on the internet are a shame... we need turn, stun, webrtc, all this stuff so two computers can talk without a dedicated port forward or public ipv4.

ipv6 is a beautiful protocol, (not perfect, but elegant) with a lot going for it. But the momentum of ipv4 is just too strong.

It's a mess... with no good solution. I tried to turn off ipv4 and github (shame on you) stopped working. But what are we supposed to do? Have the government mandate everyone switch? (oh wait half of US government websites are ipv4 only)

We did this to ourselves...