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Literally no one is suggesting this. Having globally unique IPs doesn’t even slightly infer that they should be globally reachable. IPv6 still uses firewalls. It does mean that making an internal resource reachable when appropriate for that specific resource is vastly easier: you open the right firewall port and it’s done.


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