On 28 mar 2006, at 00.11, Keith Moore wrote:
NAT is a done deal. It's well supported at network edges. It solves
the addressing issue, which was what the market wanted. It voted
for NAT with
dollars and time. It is the long term solution - not because it is
better, but
because it is.
NAT is a dead end. If the Internet does not develop a way to
obsolete NAT, the Internet will die. It will gradually be replaced
by networks that are more-or-less IP based but which only run a
small number of applications, poorly, and expensively.
...or you will see an overlay network build on top of NAT+IPv4 that
abstracts the shortcomings away - aka what the peer to peer networks
are doing. End-to-end addressing...
- kurtis -
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