IPB196: Is End-to-End Connectivity the Right Goal?
From IPv6 Buzz by Packet Pushers
March 19, 2026 · 28 min · Episode 196
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges and implications of achieving end-to-end connectivity in the context of Internet design principles.
One of the early design principles of the Internet was end-to-end connectivity: that is, every device on the Internet would be publicly addressable, and every device could share its resources or provide services. That design principle wasn’t achieved with IPv4 for a variety of reasons (including address scarcity, and many network owners not wanting endpoints ... Read more »
Topics covered
- end-to-end connectivity
- IPv4
- network design
- address scarcity
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