On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Noel Chiappa wrote: > PI is like spam - it looks attractive to the people using it, because it's > free to them. The fact that it costs *other* people money is something > they don't care about - it's not coming out of their pocket. Noel, While I might have chosen a different metaphor, I can agree with the basic point, yet I wonder: Would you agree with the thesis that *without* pervasive PI, the future of NAT (or some other mechanism for providing address autonomy to organizations) is absolutely guaranteed forever (even with v6)? To me, that seems obvious, so I'd be interested in counter arguments. It does make me wonder if there is any hope for resurrection of 8+8... -teg _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf