When household appliances begin becoming IP addressable, I think we will see
a move towards assigning an Internet IP address per household (much like
today's street address).
make that an address *block* per household.
The household will perform NAT for all devices
within (one street address can house many people, not just one).
not likely - putting NAT in the path would make the household
net nearly useless (because a lot of the things for which you want
a household net imply assigning an external address to devices
within your household)
We are of course talking about IPv6 here - IPv4 doesn't have anywhere
nearly enough address space to give every household a single routable
address. And NATs make no sense at all in a world where you have plenty
of address space.
At best NAPTs trade off address bits for port number bits - and in IPv6
port number bits are the ones that are scarce.
Keith