Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Randy Bush]

> I'm not sure we're there yet in the support technology for renumbering.
> We have good ideas but we haven't pushed them totally out the door yet.
> However, we do have good ideas.

[ flame, not directed at you personally but at this thread ]

this is not the internet marketing task force.

get real.  a LOT of folk have deployed nat, hundreds every day.  it's easy.
it solves the customer's perception of their problem.  it's not expensive.
[ yes it sucks architecturally.  what's that got to do with customer/market
reality?  the office buildings we work in suck architecturally too. ]

we'll have to be at least three times (cheaper*better*easier) to replace
nat, that's market reality.  currently we are not proposing anything that
the customer perceives as cheaper, better, or easier.  this does not bode
well. 

until we change this by making our technology, or at least the perceprion
of it, cheaper, better, and easier, pontification, scare tactics, and nat-
bashing make us look foolish and poison our credibility in the long term.

randy