Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

[Masataka Ohta]

Matt;

> >I don't know about you, but it scares me to read the various forecasts
> >about how wireless will transform the landscape over the next few
> >years. E.g., more wireless phones with internet connectivity than
> >PCs. The numbers are just staggering and the associated demand for
> >addresses will be astonishing. We ain't seen nothing yet.
> 
> It seems to be a given now that 3G phones will be IPv6 (at least outside 
> the U.S.) when they roll out over the next few years. But we should make 
> people clearly aware of what to expect when they NAT their way back to the 
> IPv4 Internet or IPv4 intranets. That is one of the purposes of this draft. 
> (oh yeah, this thread is supposed to be about contributing to the draft in 
> the subject line)

The reality is that mobile phones are using non-IP protocols.

If you use NAT, you have no reason to use IP.

In Japan, there are more than 5 million non-IP mobile WWW browsers
served by a single application gateway.

                                                        Masataka Ohta