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I get where you're coming from but wouldn't being a proper peer on the Internet imply that you would need some kind of backbone access and be an ISP yourself?

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Comcast has a huge network but none of their customers are only talking to each other, they're talking to Verizon's customers and Google and Facebook and Amazon. Everyone has to interconnect with everyone else regardless of how big they are.

All it takes to be a proper peer on the internet is a public IP address.

My ISP rotates through ipv6 addresses now (and frequently, at least several times a day). Makes that tough

That feels like assholish thing to do. The great thing about IPv6 was that there's enough of them that everyone and everything could get one. If it changes it defeats that purpose.

Browsing using a static IPv6 (or IPv4) that is unique to you is terrible for your privacy.

Randomly reusing the same limited set of IPv6 addresses would help privacy a little.

I'm sure for a mere $25 more a month they'll provide a static address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS

https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DDNS_-_How_to_setup_Cu...

That isn't much help for running your own DNS server though, since it's is a bit of a chicken and egg problem then. It's also hard to run a mail server on a residential connection because most of them block SMTP.

Fortunately there is another alternative, which is to get your public address from somewhere other than your local ISP. Some VPN providers offer a static IP or you can set up your own VPN to a VM on any cloud host and forward incoming traffic back over the tunnel.

Nope, all you need is a public address, some technical know-how, and the will.

Maybe once net neutrality goes down the drain

No.

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