[AusNOG] IPv4 Exhaustion, APNIC EC, and James is a nice bloke ; -)

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Bevan Slattery wrote:

> Does ANYONE in their right mind actually think I WANT to put some or any
> (excluding DSL modem) of these devices on public addresses?  Really?  If

Please excuse me if I'm wrong but it seems like you are equating 
'publically accessible' to 'publically addressable'.  They need not be the 
same thing as per earlier parts of the thread.  I would not allow my 
appliances to be publically accessible but I'm fine with them being 
publically addressable.

The discussion seems to have looped at this point.  So I'll end with two 
points:

1.  NAT != security

2.  Firewalls for the home are readily available.  A sensible default 
ruleset can be set on the device by the manufacturer.

> As for IPv4 exhaustion - can someone please get some sanity and pull
> back some of the address space given back in the days when Yoda was
> playing soccer with Jesus for Jerusalem?

Oh it's been tried.  Tried and tried and tried.

Rob

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