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Raul, On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Raul Echeberria wrote:
At 08:32 p.m. 29/07/2007, David Conrad wrote:Raul, On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Raul Echeberria wrote:In fact I don't think that any RIR promote the use of NAT.Historically, NAT use hasn't needed promotion.I guess that we agree regarding the use of NAT.
Perhaps, but the question was whether the RIRs should promote NAT.As the IPv4 free pool exhausts, I suspect more and more people will come to the pragmatic realization that public addresses are only absolutely required for providing externally reachable services and that the vast majority of clients can make do sitting behind NATs. If RIRs were to encourage the use of NAT in such cases, the demand on the remaining IPv4 free pool would be lessened, thereby extending the runway for IPv6 deployment and (assuming NAT is the evil many say it is), encouraging that deployment.
Rgds, -drc
