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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>

On Feb 2, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

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I won't run an edge-network that *isn't* NATted; my internal machines have no business having publicly routable addresses. No one has *ever* provided me with a serviceable explanation as to why that's an invalid view.

Good luck with that when you become an IPv4 island.

Strawman, Owen; the content of my assertion clearly was meant to be interpreted in the context of the current, 98% IPv4 Internet, and extrapolated to IPv6; I was pretty clearly not suggesting that I want to stay IPv4 as the rest of the Net leaves... as you imply. Cheers, -- jra