[e2e] 0% NAT - checkmating the disconnectors

[David P. Reed]

So, in the spirit of potentially opening up a can of worms (pardon the 
pun!) for those of us who believe an open, well-lit Internet is better 
than a dark and dank collection of twisty passages and side streets of 
the sort being constructed by the security mavens and their opponents ...

Does anyone have any good thoughts on how to collectively create the 
next generation *Inter* Net - one that actually provides the 
interoperability that all of us old codgers dreamed was possible when 
Licklider, Taylor, Englebart, etc. first imagined it and Vint Cerf and 
Bob Kahn made it happen?

Of course we need to pay attention to real security and create a space 
that is inherently safe both from bad guys and guys like Verizon and SBC 
and oppressive governments who want to decide what connections should be 
allowed, while denying all others.

It seems that the action will be in creating a pervasive, and 
easy-to-adopt flexible, secure and resilient overlay.   One where the 
bad boy "gunslingers" who offer "protection" on behalf of our employers 
and governments can't scare the kiddies off the streets, and allow us to 
take back the Internet.

We know that NATs don't protect us very well, and we know that firewalls 
don't either.   Yet they sure get in the way and create points of power 
for those who would keep us disconnected.

We also know that Microsoft, Linux, and Apple (among others) are under 
tremendous pressure to "save us", so they are pouring more and more 
"disconnectivity" into their platforms in the form of packet inspection 
and mandatory, non-discretionary controls on what can be done.

None of this garbage is being thought through critically in terms of its 
global impact - instead it's being piled in heaps and gobs all 
throughout the network.

Who speaks for connectivity?   Who speaks for openness?   Fewer and 
fewer, it seems.