On 7/30/2013 6:23 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
The IETF doesn't have a police force, or any enforcement mechanism. If we're
going to head off these boxes, the only tool we have to do that is to build
better mousetraps - i.e. design stuff that does what people want, is more
cost-effective, and is better than these local 'point deployment' boxes.
Although I appreciate the sentiment, "what people want" (ISP operators,
or at least some of them), was an artificial way to differentiate home
customers from commercial providers.
I.e., they wanted to create a differentiation that wasn't part of the
Internet architecture, so they put one in.
NATs did other things (reuse addresses, block services, etc.), but IMO
mostly as a by-product of this primary motivation.
It's very hard to do "what people want" when what they want is to defeat
the core concept of the architecture - that all endpoints are 'equal'.
Joe