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Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-13 13:00:39

On 1/13/2004 1:24 PM, Joe Touch wrote:

Eric A. Hall wrote:

Other than conserving addresses, NAT "features" are basically poison 
resold as bread.

Heck, I don't even like the conservation feature.

Misguided allocation policies created a false demand. We would have been
better off to run out of addresses than to let gateways 'rescue' us from
our false shortage.

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