Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

[M�ns Nilsson]

"Rakers, Jason" wrote:
> 
> When household appliances begin becoming IP addressable, I think we will see
> a move towards assigning an Internet IP address per household (much like
> today's street address).  The household will perform NAT for all devices
> within (one street address can house many people, not just one).

IMNSHO, NAT is evil. While most end-luser applications work "fine" with
it, it does impose restrictions on what can be done as compared to
possibilities in the end-to-end universe. 

*Designing* something to be NAT in  a world that goes toward a larger
address space is broken and should be avoided att all practical costs. 

I do sense that this has been discussed before and will now stop. 

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