economies of scale (was Re: solution to NAT...)

2001-01-31 Thread James P. Salsman
[PPP over TCP through NATs] doesn't provide any more global address space Why create more supply when it can be so easy to reduce demand? This reminds me of California's electricity crisis. It seems the internet administration community can easily do their part for this very fundamental

Re: economies of scale (was Re: solution to NAT...)

2001-01-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Keith, You are certainly correct: We are accustomed to thinking of conservation as a Good Thing, but an effective conservation plan can actually make a system less able to cope with fluctuations in load. That reminds me of another economic analogy to a contempoary internet engineering