Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago
    • IPv6, needed for modern Internet not to collapse, would make many other important things easier. Easier to become an ISP, to selfhost, to build P2P networks, etc.
    • GNU Taler, a payment protocol just look at it go: https://101010.pl/@didek/111934952208145427, or just imagine building a payment terminal of a Raspberry Pi
    • Matrix, to unify chat, conference and calling apps
    • some self-arranging darknet protocol becoming a norm like I2P, GNUNet or Yggdrasil, so we could have a backup when mass Internet blockage happen
    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      I'm stupid, can you elaborate a little further about how ipv6 would make becoming an ISP easier?

      • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 months ago

        There are no IPv4 addresses left. So you eather go IPv6-only, which would make many services not work. Or wait in a long queue to repurpose address spaces marked as depracated which would soon run out too. And then you put clients behind double or triple NAT doing having shitty service.

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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          7 months ago

          There's proctored private resale of IPv4.

          A lot of orgs (mine included) are sitting on large chunks of IPs they don't need (we have a /16 and several /24s) because they adopted early, got an ASN and prefix assigned by ARIN, and their addressing scheme is now so disjointed and scattered that they can't sell off anything bigger than a /22, and that makes setting up BGP a pain. Juice ain't worth the squeeze.