Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> > > Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype?
> > Yes, yes, and yes.  Works fine.
>
> What about every other service/protocol that users use today,
> and might be invented tomorrow ?  Do & will they all work with
> NAT ?

Some do, some don't.  My observation is that in practice the stuff that 
people do on consumer DSL works through NAT a lot better than the nanog 
conventional wisdom says it does.

> Will it stop or hamper the innovation of new services on the
> internet ?

Like peer to peer phish bots?  I certainly hope so.

R's,
John