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A big minus coming from the hijacking of the "router" term is that that people will start thinking that's how internet routing works, and through this newspeak come to tolerate these nat-"routers" and firewalls.

We badly need to get back to end-to-end or we won't be able to deploy new protocols and apps in a few years. Eg it's doubtful if BitTorrent could take off if it was invented today.




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