[170140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Morizot)
Mon Mar 24 14:37:46 2014
In-Reply-To: <44boqytu56vgfwcy1mu10vfu.1395678995630@email.android.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:37:16 -0500
From: Timothy Morizot <tmorizot@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez@opsys.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez@opsys.com>wrote:
> not to mention the cost in readdressing your entire network when you
> change an upstream provider.
>
> Nat was a fix to a problem of lack of addresses, however, the use of
> private address space 10/8, 192.168/16 has allowed many to enjoy a simple
> network addressing scheme.
>
Which is, of course, precisely the use case that ULA and NPTv6 (RFC 6296,
not to be confused with a non-existent NAT66) addresses....
