[Bloat] ipv6 with telephone number mapping

Michael Richardson mcr at sandelman.ca
Thu Nov 25 14:31:39 EST 2021


Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
    > On 11/25/2021 9:26 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
    >> What's the real barrier to doing this nowadays? We use signal in this
    >> way, sort of:
    >>
    >> https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1463740452260171776
    >>
    >> "There should be an automatic mapping from cellular numbers to IPV6
    >> addresses so you can run a directly accessible server on any cell
    >> phone."

    > Without root, phones make really frustrating servers.

Agreed.

    > Do/can phones have provider-independent addresses? Do we need root to assign
    > one?

No, they mostly don't.
But, running an overlay like LISP makes sense.
QUIC can then be used to remove the latency from the overlay.
(Or SHIM6 is that could be rebooted)

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