Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
> From: Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> [NAT's] shouldn't have any effect on the *number* of [address] >> blocks (i.e. things which can potentially produce global routing table >> entries). >> ... So the number of distinct "local areas" is still the same, yes? >> And

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread Geoff Huston
At 12/16/00 10:02 PM -0500, J. Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > There are strong indications that NAT is one factor behind this part of > > the BGP table. > >I'm afraid I'm missing the logic here. As you point out below, NAT's may have >caused people

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread Keith Moore
the fact that IPv* doesn't distinguish between who and where does cause some problems, but does not significantly impact the ability to route IPv* packets. even if you free IP addresses from any kind of role as host identity (which IMHO would be a good thing except that nobody has produced a sa

Announcement: IPS Interim Meeting

2000-12-16 Thread Rodriguez, Elizabeth G (Elizabeth)
> We will be holding an IPS interim meeting on January 16th and 17th. > The meeting will be held at the Grosvenor Resort, Lake Buena Vista, > Orlando, Florida. > This is the same hotel that the T10 meetings are being held at. > > The agenda will be forthcoming sometime this week, as will more >

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
> From: Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There are strong indications that NAT is one factor behind this part of > the BGP table. I'm afraid I'm missing the logic here. As you point out below, NAT's may have caused people to use *smaller* blocks of the global address space: >

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread Sean Doran
I looked again. Perry Metzger still writes: | > So, I have to wonder, why is it that they have no option? | | Maybe because I hear from folks like you and others that you're | ideologically opposed to deploying v6 instead of against it for | technical reasons? Wait, it's because of *me* that IP

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread Sean Doran
Perry Metzger writes: | Maybe because I hear from folks like you and others that you're | ideologically opposed to deploying v6 instead of against it for | technical reasons? You have never heard this from me. I have no doubt whatsoever that you have heard this from others speaking about me. T

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > you're ideologically opposed to deploying v6 instead of against it for > technical reasons? Ah, *that's* what's wrong with IPv6 - it doesn't pay enough attention to control of the means of production by the workers. And here I was, al

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread Perry E. Metzger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Doran) writes: > I should have waited until Perry had spoken, because now that he has > pointed out the extreme cost of NAT, I have seen the light! > > NATs are expensive. They have gross side-effects. Even Noel Chiappa, > my guru, says that they are an architectural ha

Re: 49th-IETF conf room planning

2000-12-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:32 PM -0500 12/13/00, Daniel Senie wrote: > I am starting to wonder if we're going to have to hold the meetings > primarily in Las Vegas. I fervently hope not. Las Vegas is the tobacco smoking capital of the U.S. -- higher rates than anywhere else in the country, including areas where

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-16 Thread Tripp Lilley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Henning G. Schulzrinne wrote: > Then, there's always the Scout Jamboree option: build an Internet tent > city. I'd imagine Burning Man has more attendees than the IETF and it > seems to draw some of the same crowd. Interop tried this at Vegas shows from, what, '96 through '9