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by bradley13 1001 days ago
The purity of IPv6 doesn't want NAT. Therefore, yes, all of those devices are supposed to have public addresses.

We can debate whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but that is the way IPv6 is supposed to work.

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We should abandon the very idea of "public" and "private" addresses. An IP address is just an IP address, a globally-unique number that identifies a networked device. If you want a device to be inaccessible by other devices, throw in a firewall. NAT is just a firewall with packet-modifying capabilities anyways.