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

[Tim Salo]

> From: "Dawson, Peter D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:36:57 -0000 
> 
> ->The household will perform NAT for all devices
> ->within (one street address can house many people, not just one).
> 
> .. and lose out on e2e connectivity ?? 
>       [...]

Geeks like us care about end-to-end transparency.  Refrigerator's don't.

Most people are going to buy products based on the functions they
perform (utility), not on their architecture.  If someone develops
a nice household/Internet gateway that does something useful (and
doesn't require a UNIX administrator), people will buy it, regardless
of whether it performs some politically/religiously incorrect protocol
transformations.

And, if IPvX addresses cost money, a lot of households will pay money
for devices that enable them to operate with only one IP address.

(We now return you to discussions about how AOL can't claim to be
part of the Internet...)

-tjs