North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:18:49PM -0600, Adi Linden wrote: > There are a number of good and reasonable uses for RFC1918 addresses. Just > assume a individual/business/corporate LAN with client/server applications > and statically configured ip numbering. RFC1918 addresses are perfect. NAT > allows this network to be connected through any provider(s) to the > Internet. There is no risk of collision of the internal address with > publically routed addresses. > > To do without RFC1918 type address space it expect to > > a. Obtain unique, permanent address space for > personal/business/corporate use > b. Receive this unique, permanent address space > at no cost > c. Have this unique address space routed via any > provider of my choosing I see this a lot recently: You are mixing up RfC1918 and NAT. If I have globally unique addresses I can NAT them as well as 10/8. One has nothing to do with the other. Having to NAT RfC1918 addresses to reach the internet, does not imply that I have to have RfC1918 to be able to do NAT. Nils
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