For one day this week my home desktop machine wasn't going through NAT to get out to the net and back. My desktop computer had a real IP address and could be reached from any other machine or device in the world. When I looked up Google, or Facebook, or Youtube it was my computer talking directly to their server. My desktop computer could talk directly to my Android phone. Facebook could send things directly to my computer or phone if I wanted it to. No middleman. No client-server intermediate setup. No setting up port forwards.
Just direct routing, the way the internet was intended to be from the start.
We need more of that. And less of the broken, kludged system we're currently mistaking for the internet.
Happy IPv6 day!
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/world-ipv6-day-went-mostly-smoothly-with-a-few-surprises.ars
http://news.opensuse.org/2011/06/09/world-ipv6-day-results/
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