Re: (ngtrans) Joint DNSEXT & NGTRANS summary

[Ron Tipton]

> The NAT sites I've seen are using it for precisely one reason: to
> conserve precious IPv4 address space. They won't use NAT with IPv6.
> 
> ---Dan


Dan,

I can only speak for myself, but we (the University of Tennessee) seriously
considered using NAT for our dorm network, not because of lack of IPv4
address space, but because of lack of PORTABLE IPv4 address space.  Most
of our free IPv4 address space belonged to one of our ISPs and we DO NOT
want to stay captive to them.  

In the end we decided to renumber our entire network to avoid NAT, but
for us, NAT was a better solution than using IPv4 address space belonging
to an ISP.  After the pain of that renumbering, I assure you that if IPv6
address space only belongs to ISPs and not to the University of Tennessee,
we will NAT to avoid captivity!

r

Ron Tipton
Advanced Internet Technologies
University of Tennessee