> Otherwise it makes a strong case for the continued use of "private networks" and the IPv6 ULA mechanism.

Let's please not. Even without inbound reachability, hole punching is significantly easier given globally routeable addresses.

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themafia 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You can have /both/ a ULA and a Globally Routable address. In practice it works just fine. My internal DNS points to the ULA for internal connectivity and my hosts use their global addresses for external connectivity.

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lxgr an hour ago | parent [-]

Ah, you mean for cases where you want both stable addresses (even if only internal) and globally reachable ones (even if non-constant)?

Yeah, that works, but everything gets much easier if your internal DNS can just support the varying prefix natively, e.g. via integration with the external-facing DHCP or PPPoE or whatever other address configuration protocol you use, since then you can reach everything both locally and globally by name.

	▲	themafia an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> but everything gets much easier It also gets more fragile. If your ISP can't or doesn't issue you a prefix for whatever reason then your entire IPv6 network stops working even internally. This is even more pertinent if, like me, you're on a 4G LTE connection. Verizon has great IPv6 support, when you can get it, and when you can't I'd still prefer to have a stable internal network.