Re: Making the IETF meeting network more representative of the real world

[Matt Holdrege]

At 10:11 AM 8/9/2001, Keith Moore wrote:
> > Seriously, are we really saying that NAT is great for consumers,
> > but keep them away from the IETF network because we *know* it won't
> > work?
>
>it's actually the opposite:
>
>- we *know* that NAT has limited applicability and interferes with
>   applications that consumers/customers want to deploy
>
>- at the same time most IETF attendees aren't doing things that NATs
>   would break.

Wrong! Most IETF'ers I know tunnel back to their home offices. I personally 
use an IPsec/IKE implementation that doesn't care much for NAT.