Re: [address-policy-wg] The final /8 policy proposals, part 3.2

11 Sep 2009

      Sander Steffann wrote:
...
Jim asked why we should change the policy at all for the final /8. I  
hope I have given at least one good reason: new entrants. Michael  
proposed to leave (further) decisions about the final /8 until IANA  
runs out of IPv4 addresses.
Another good reason to change the policy is recent development
of NAT technology.

Recent NAT even allows for end to end transparency that there
is no reason for old entrants not to deploy NAT to reduce address
consumption to leave room for new entrants.

						Masataka Ohta

PS

If we wisely allocate the final /8s, we will be ready to allocate
class E and part of class D for unicast before we run out of
classes A, B and C.

That is, we don't need IPv6.