[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-127: Shared Transition Space for IPv4Address Extension

[George Bonser]

> From: Chris Donley 
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:49 PM
> To: George Bonser; Chris Grundemann
> Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-127: Shared Transition Space for
> IPv4Address Extension
> 
> 
> Still, my major source of discomfort is enabling v4 forever.
> [CD] I think the market will take care of that.  NAT444 is going to
> suck for all but the most basic services.  It will offer a degraded
> quality of experience for video streaming, gaming, voice, etc. -
> services customers want to use.  IPv6 will offer a better quality of
> experience through bypassing the NAT.  Customers will get the message
> and start using IPv6 as they replace legacy devices. As Owen said,
> NAT444 is a great business case for IPv6. I don't see any way around
> NAT444, though.  It's the only IPv4 extension technology that's
readily
> deployable and doesn't require a new home gateway.
> 
> Chris

Why is it going to suck?  We are actually doing it now, pretty much.  A
computer in an office opens a connection to a content provider.  That
RFC1918 packet gets NATed to a global IP somewhere.  That packet then
hits a load balancer at the content provider where it is again
translated and directed to a machine in 1918 space again.

For all practical purposes most of the traffic in the v4 Internet today
is already NAT444


In and of itself it isn't going to break anything that doesn't already
break today unless someone tries to use an underpowered box to do the
NAT.