Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

[Cullen Jennings <fluffy at cisco.com>]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Rosenberg wrote:

>>
>>
>> In essence, something like this would increase the address lenght by
>> 16 bits.
>
> Well, as I am sure you know, the reason NAT is so successful is that  
> it
> basically does extend the IP address space by 16 bits, but in a
> backwards compatible way, making it incrementally deployable. Thus,  
> you
> get high utility and ease of deployment, the double whammy that  
> leads to
> success, as draft-iab-protocol-success discusses.

So this thread could be summarized as "32+16 > 128"

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