Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

[Steve Deering]

At 8:48 AM -0700 4/25/00, Bill Manning wrote:
>and this is different from only carrying the 253 usable /8 prefixes in
>IPv4 how? 

The set of customers who have addresses under a given IPv4 /8 prefix greater
than 127 do not all aggregate into a single topological subregion (e.g., a
single ISP), and therefore more granular routes must be widely disseminated
to make those customers reachable.  That's the difference.

Steve