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so when you can have a TV for movies, why can't you have a server for a blog?
Because you have to have a TV for movies (unless you want to watch them on a small laptop screen)[1]. Whereas there is very literal practical reason to self-host a blog. [1]: Yes I know cinemas exist but they are very expensive and don't show content on demand.
This argument is a different one compared to the one before.
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I fail to see how mandating ISPs to implement and use IPv6 is equivalent to "putting laws on what you can put inside of Ethernet"
Maybe don’t talk about stuff you don’t have any experience with then. Many ISP products are carrying Ethernet frames (metro Ethernet, the fabric at an exchange) or are even just leasing fiber. In order to force IPv6 and ensure nobody is using IPv4, you absolutely are putting laws on what goes over those Ethernet frames.
Why do people immediately assume that any possible regulation will be the stupidest possible regulation? Corporate brainwashing?
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The point was a prefix from 2600::/16 isn’t special; it’s just from one of the blocks assigned to ARIN. One ISP I know of with an allocation in that range is Verizon, which announces a number of prefixes over BGP in 2600:1000::/24
Uhm, anyone with an ISP in the United States is going to have a block delegated from ARIN. That's the whole point of ARIN, isn't it? Nothing they delegate is inherently special, because ARIN administers all of the allocations for their region. I'm saying that perhaps the 2600::/16 delegation is especially reserved for a certain class of user in order to tag us as something. Surely, my own ISP holds more delegations t…