On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:46:37 -0700 "Tomas L. Byrnes" <t...@byrneit.net> wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roland Perry [mailto:li...@internetpolicyagency.com] > > Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 12:11 PM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: Internet Kill Switch. > > > > In article > > <aanlktimtdz5uo8v8obc7cxgmnodahqzjahqbetmuw...@mail.gmail.com>, > Matthew > > Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> writes > > >After all with a world population of 7 billion, you certainly can't > > >have "Internet [...] for everyone" with only 4 billion IP addresses, > > >unless you put a *lot* of NAT in place. > > > > What's the average household size, especially in developing countries. > > And does "everyone" have access, if their home does? > > -- > > Roland Perry > > [Tomas L. Byrnes] The issue is more that everyone who DOES have access > has more than one device, and that many of those devices move around. I > won't get into the "NAT breaks the Internet" war, but it certainly does > limit the type of applications you can run, or at the very least makes > network provisioning, operations and maintenance much more complex than > a non-natted network. > > > Yeah, it's scary. "Issues with IP Address Sharing" http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ford-shared-addressing-issues-02
