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Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:26:51 -0800
It was the combination of asymmetric, no or few IPs (and NAT), and bandwidth caps.let's not rewrite history here: IPv4 address scarcity has been a thing since the very early 1990s. Otherwise why would cidr have been created?
CIDR had nothing to do with address scarcity. CIDR was invented for routing table slot scarcity in Cisco AGS hardware of the era. Routers running out of BGP table space wasn’t just a fear at the time, it was a real problem on a number of networks, including, but not limited to SPRINT and MCI who were the big dogs in the fight at the time. NAT, OTOH, is an address conservation mechanism which has unfortunately of late been mistaken for a security tool. If only people would realize how much NAT negatively impacts security, manageability, etc. Owen
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- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality, (continued)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Mar 02)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Mar 02)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Mar 03)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Mar 03)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Mar 03)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Mar 10)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Mar 10)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Miles Fidelman (Mar 02)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Dave Taht (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Owen DeLong (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality David Conrad (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality manning bill (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Stephen Satchell (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Joe Greco (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Stephen Sprunk (Mar 02)