Re: new version of the draft

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Right on (although not totally appropriate for the criteria list).
The commercial providers, at least, will continue to offer translation
service as long as it makes them money, which will be a very long time.
They will offer application-level gateways for even longer, and even
after we run out of globally unique IPv4 addresses, I suspect that the
service providers will support IPv4 between their own customers.  The
force working against balkanization is the introduction of new services
and features which can only be run over a common lower layer.  I believe
there will be plenty of these -- I can't imagine "mail-enabled
videoconferencing" for example(!).

So balkanization isn't a Solution, but translation/encapsulation
services -- the so-called transition period -- will be with us for ages,
and any Solution should include efficient ones.

							Scott