Re: quietly....

[Paul Graydon <paul () paulgraydon co uk>]

On 02/01/2011 11:38 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:36 PM, david raistrick wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Dave Israel wrote:
> >
> > > responsibility.  If they want to use DHCPv6, or NAT, or Packet over Avian Carrier to achieve that, let them.  If using them 
> > > causes them problems, then they should not use them.  It really isn't the community's place to force people not to use 
> > > tools they find useful because we do not like them.
> > Not to mention that when you take tools -away- from people that solve an existing problem, you'll get a lot of pushback.
> NAT solves exactly one problem. It provides a way to reduce address consumption to work around a shortage of addresses.
>
> It does not solve any other problem(s).
>
> As such, taking it away when giving you a large enough address space that there is no longer a shortage doesn't
> strike me as taking away a tool that solves a problem. It strikes me as giving you a vastly superior tool that solves
> rather than working around a problem.
Don't forget the security benefits!!!1111oneone

*runs*