On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 17:00, Paul Bone <[email protected]> wrote: > > Those sound like features, and how the Internet was supposed to work. > > Yes - was is the key word here, well with regards to IPv4. NAT has worked > absolutely fine for the vast majority of outbound service requirements for > a long time >
For certain very low values of "absolutely fine". The damage to the growth and development of new services however, and the negative impact on security and protocols, not so good. Think of all the time and effort has been wasted by engineers dealing with NAT issues. That effort isn't free. > and a University does not need a /16 > Who says? Nothing wrong with Royal Hollowing College allocating an IPv4 address from their 134.219.0.0/16 to a printer or some other "lowly" device; for one thing it makes it a lot easier when they merge with Bedford College and don't have to renumber anything. It's what unique addresses are for. Aled
