Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Perry E. Metzger]

"J. Noel Chiappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I'm not saying that NAT's are a Great Thing, I do wonder if people are
> experiencing a bit of "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome here.
> NAT's are in wide-spread use, and lots of people (e.g. you :-) are being
> forced to struggle with their manifold downsides on a daily basis. In dealing
> with this (and wishing they didn't have to deal with these problems :-), I
> wonder if people are assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that the alternative is
> relatively pain-free?

If you mean "globally addressable IP addresses", I think that the
specific pain in question would go away, yes.

> So my question is: do you know of any site, one which has a lot of
> interaction with the rest of the Internet, which has actually
> converted to the alternative,

What do you mean by "the alternative"?

If you mean "gotten large blocks of global v4 addresses", the answer
is no one *can* at the moment.

If you mean v6, obviously not -- v6 isn't in real commercial
deployment yet (although it is now at the stage where we could
commercially deploy). If people were to start deploying v6, it would
probably initially be no less painful than NAT -- it would only have
the promise of being less painful down the road.

If you mean RSIP, RSIP is even further from deployment than
v6. Indeed, I'd say that RSIP is a clever but utterly dead end idea.

Perry