Large ISPs doing NAT?

Thu May 2 08:32:16 UTC 2002

### On Thu, 2 May 2002 01:20:40 -0700, Scott Francis
### <darkuncle at darkuncle.net> casually decided to expound upon Peter Bierman
### <pmb+nanog at sfgoth.com> the following thoughts about "Re: Large ISPs
### doing NAT?":

SF> The average customer buying a "web-enabled" phone doesn't need a
SF> publicly-routeable IP. I challenge anybody to demonstrate why a cell phone
SF> needs a public IP. It's a PHONE, not a server.

Time to start thinking a little further down the line.  What if the phone
actually becomes an wireless IP gateway router?  It routes packets from a
PAN (personal area network) riding on top of Bluetooth or 802.11{a,b} to the
3G network for transit.  NAT would certainly become very messy.

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