On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:44:42PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: > This is only about allocating a chunk of address space. For which there is better use than prolonging bad technical solutions. Address translation has set the state of consumer computing back severely. It might be all nice and proper according to those who desire to keep the power of owning a TV transmitter, a printing press or a transaction broker service. Do keep in mind that the real driver in IP technology is the ability for end-nodes to communicate in a manner they chose without prior coordination with some kind of protocol gateway. NAT and more so CGN explicitly disables this key feature. And this is not what the IETF should be doing. The IETF should seek to maximise the technical capabilities of the Internet protocol suite so that it may continue to enable new uses of the key feature, ie. end-node reachability. Allocating CGN-blessing address space is a clear violation of this. -- Måns _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf