Re: [77attendees] Bar BOF: Impact of NAT444 on content providers

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 2010-03-16 22:24, Matthew Ford wrote:
> On 15/03/2010 23:02, Dan Wing wrote:
>> A different layout of draft-ford-shared-addressing-issues might
>> go a long way towards addressing the desire for a citable
>> document on the negative affect of IPv4 address sharing to a
>> content provider.  Failing that, perhaps a separate draft; however
>> it seems difficult to describe any of these as solely or even
>> primarily impacting the content provider -- it is the collateral
>> damage caused by the negative reputation of the IPv4 identifier
>> that is the foundation of much of the woe (for the penalty boxes).
> 
> The latest rev of draft-ford-shared-addressing-issues includes an
> initial, basic assessment of whether issues identified pertain to either
> the party implementing the shared addressing solution, or to third
> parties, or both. That analysis could certainly be improved.
> 
> At present I plan to briefly present the updates to the draft in the
> intarea meeting in Anaheim, and to ask for interest in adoption as a WG
> work item. If there's energy and interest in working on improving the
> structure and content of this draft, that'd be a good place to bring it.

Sure. But what we are talking about in the bar BOF is a *specific* focus
on the issues (and surprises) affecting content providers. I am quite
sure that your draft will be a major reference for any resulting
document.

   Brian