by Geoff Huston, APNIC In this article I examine the topic that was discussed in a session at the 74th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in March 2009, about Address Sharing (the SHARA BOF)[0], and look at the evolution of Network Address Translation (NAT) architectures in the face of the forthcoming depletion [...]

by Geoff Huston, APNIC In this article I examine the topic that was discussed in a session at the 74th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in March 2009, about Address Sharing (the SHARA BOF)[0], and look at the evolution of Network Address Translation (NAT) architectures in the face of the forthcoming depletion [...]