Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

[Matt Holdrege]

At 08:53 AM 1/22/2001, Henning G. Schulzrinne wrote:
>Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > The ISOC isn't a trade association, which is where such seals
> > of approval (and the associated b*ke-offs) tend to come from.
>
>Maybe the IPv6 consortium or whatever they call themselves could do
>this, since IPv6 is a (the only?) realistic alternative to NATs.

Long term, yes. But Class A addresses for all the always-on users today 
would eliminate a heck of a lot of NAT out there. And I wasn't referring to 
a "seal-of-approval". Just some sort of formal recognition.