I keep wondering how much of these problems would go away if IPv6 adoption were outright enforced by government (and on top of that static IP addresses as well). You suddenly have sufficient IP addresses, don't need NAT, know where you're supposed to connect to, and the need for central servers is much diminished. [1]
Possibly it's a bit on the late side to push for this though, since people have now already gone down the centralization path; as opposed to natural peer-to-peer. But OTOH maybe better late than never?
Put it this way. If we could go back in time and make a Minimum Necessary Change to history: possibly forcing IPv6 adoption early might have given us a more privacy-compatible timeline. [2][3][4]
[1] This is not necessarily The One True Way to achieve this, but certainly a way.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/51f584/reali...
[4] I really wish Minimum Necessary Change had made it into regular vocabulary. I think more people know what an Outside Context Problem is, or Psychohistory.
Possibly it's a bit on the late side to push for this though, since people have now already gone down the centralization path; as opposed to natural peer-to-peer. But OTOH maybe better late than never?
Put it this way. If we could go back in time and make a Minimum Necessary Change to history: possibly forcing IPv6 adoption early might have given us a more privacy-compatible timeline. [2][3][4]
[1] This is not necessarily The One True Way to achieve this, but certainly a way.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/51f584/reali...
[4] I really wish Minimum Necessary Change had made it into regular vocabulary. I think more people know what an Outside Context Problem is, or Psychohistory.