[75202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Nov 9 00:15:44 2004
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041108224732.06a3eec0@mail.amaranth.net>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, kent crispin <kent@icann.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:14:15 -0500
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 8 Nov 2004, at 22:53, Daniel Senie wrote:
> Is it SO hard for people to understand that it's possible today to use
> private address space and public address space in a network WITHOUT
> using NAT?
I think the hard thing to understand is why you would bother using 1918
space if you didn't have to.
> In today's networks, printers do NOT need global addresses.
If they did have globally-unique addresses, I bet they would still work
just fine, though.
Joe
