[arin-ppml] Draft Policy 2009-1: Transfer Policy - Revised andforwarded to the Board

[Owen DeLong]

On May 7, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Lee Howard wrote:

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>
>> No. I'm saying that the ones who deliver stateful firewalled service
>> to a large base of customers using global IPs instead of private IPs,
>> and who deliberately built it that way just in the last couple of
>> years did so knowing the score.
>>
>> The number of service providers delivering that kind of service is
>> relatively small but scope of some of those services is quite large.
>> And some of them are hoarding.
>
> Which of these statements better reflects your position?
> If an organization can use NAT44, they SHOULD.
> If an organization can use NAT44, they MUST.
>
If an organization can use NAT44, they should at least consider it.

> Do we need a policy proposal requiring NAT44, or requiring
> demonstration why NAT44 can't be used?
>
I would vehemently oppose any such policy.  NAT breaks too many
things and is, in my view, an abysmal hack which is a necessary
evil to deal with a temporary shortage of IPv4 addresses while we
work towards IPv6.

Owen

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