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		runeks on Aug 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design I’m not sure I follow why this would be desirable. As a sender of a packet, why would I care who routes my (encrypted) packet to its destination? Why would I want to restrict the number of possible routes from me to the receiver?

topranks on Aug 11, 2017 [–]

Latency, jitter, not wanting to go via country X where national security agency Y will see it......

Mostly your right though.

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