Matt;
I don't know about you, but it scares me to read the various forecasts
about how wireless will transform the landscape over the next few
years. E.g., more wireless phones with internet connectivity than
PCs. The numbers are just staggering and the associated demand for
addresses will be astonishing. We ain't seen nothing yet.
It seems to be a given now that 3G phones will be IPv6 (at least outside
the U.S.) when they roll out over the next few years. But we should make
people clearly aware of what to expect when they NAT their way back to the
IPv4 Internet or IPv4 intranets. That is one of the purposes of this draft.
(oh yeah, this thread is supposed to be about contributing to the draft in
the subject line)
The reality is that mobile phones are using non-IP protocols.
If you use NAT, you have no reason to use IP.
In Japan, there are more than 5 million non-IP mobile WWW browsers
served by a single application gateway.
Masataka Ohta