Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

[David Morris <dwm at xpasc.com>]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Terry Gray wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Keith Moore wrote:
>
> > one of the areas in which I think the IPv4 design failed is that it
> > didn't really follow the catenet model.  it was not possible to extend
> > the network from any point.  and this is part of what led to NATs,
> > because there really was a need to be able to do that.
>
>...
>
> 2. Essentially free addresses are really important to a lot of people,
> especially anyone responsible for bunches of machines... Without them,
> something like NAT is guaranteed to persist, in order to minimize
> cost.

And the growing adoption of virtualization will contribute further to the
numbers of "machines" needing unique addressibility ...

Dave Morris

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