Re: solution to NAT and multihoming

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Kevin Farley wrote:

> - no, not everyone wants to run every conceivable application/protocol
> to their client machines, they are happy with the subset they chose.

you have an interesting spin on 'choice'. How can you choose something
before you've tried it? Before it's been written?


> - no, not everyone wants to participate in the great global address
> space of the Internet, they just want to access Internet-connected
> devices.

That is tantamount to saying 'We don't need clean air! We don't even
want to know what clean air is! We just need to be able to breathe!'.

I'm tempted to equate the walled-garden restrictions imposed by NAT
with the walled-garden restrictions imposed for copy-protection:
http://cryptome.org/jg-wwwcp.htm

either way, consumers are disadvantaged.


> Given the argument that NAT restricts the available applications and/or
> protocols, a potential buyer of the device must then choose the one
> that meets his or her requirements.

or the requirements of his users. Note the disconnect of needs and
interests there.

L.

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