[e2e] using p2p overlays to overcome recursive NATs/realms

[David P. Reed]

At 09:21 AM 2/11/2002 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
>On the other hand, there are different ways to do
>this, with different engineering results. Trying to restrict the number
>of addresses has been proven to backfire: you get the deployment of home
>NATs, the ISP does not do more business, and the network becomes
>brittle. Why don't we look at this as an engineering issue, and provide
>the community with better tools?

Maybe I'm not saying it well, but this is the point I'm trying to make.

However, there *is* constant pushback against better tools from engineering 
folks who seem to think that their operator customers and employers won't 
buy into better, more flexible tools at any price, and prefer to follow the 
"evil" strategies like selling IP addresses at high prices, or refusing to 
sell them at all, blocking ports, restricting "servers", etc.