Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

[Eliot Lear <lear () cisco com>]

Deepak Jain wrote:
> MY question is -- How do you know if a justification for _public_ space
> handling a large NAT'd pool is the proper size and not an over/under
> allocation based on the customer in question?

Why is the answer to this question any different than it has been since 
BCP-12?  The answer is that we don't, but we guard against the problem 
with methods such as slow start allocations.

Eliot