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I think its funny everyone thinks that ISPs, Device Manufacturers, and Cloud Providers are going to let your connect back directly to your "home" with IOT devices.

Absolutely not. They can charge your $9.99/mo so you can connect their craptastic app to their craptastic cloud so you can "use their app from anywhere".

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... and NAT was a big part of giving them the market power they now use to enforce that.

I would say the lack of deploying service locator records in DNS was also a major contributor. We have trillions of ports/ip combinations available and we use waste bits by always using 443.

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