Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com> > On dinsdag, apr 29, 2003, at 20:24 Europe/Amsterdam, Peter Deutsch > wrote: > > > - So what percentage of machines really are being NATed right now? > > > - What percentage of traffic is generated and consumed by NATed > > hosts? > > How is answering any of these questions going to help us? "Oh, NATed > traffic is 7% and not 5%! You are right we should have site local > addresses then!" But if the number were 50% or higher, I'd think that would have some bearing on things. If nothing else, it should convince the anti-NAT crowd to work harder at finding other solutions. > - If we allow people to register non-routable globally unique addresses > for private use, eventually some of this address space will leak out > into the global routing table. In IPv4, filtering private address > ranges and long prefixes is well-established and if and when this > fails, the consequences are negligible. Without an explicit directive from the IETF (a la RFC2050), the RIRs will not do this. In words attributed to an ARIN staffer, "We only register addresses for the Internet, not private networks." S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking