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> Actually... MIT forcing an entire generation of future engineers to deal with IPv6

Then why are they doing NAT?

Edit: Although moving to NAT might push innovation too, or at least some clever hacks. Speaking of that, if you want use a relay to do NAT traversal then is TCP over ARQ (on UDP) as bad as TCP over TCP?

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They're doing NAT for IPv4. The IPv6 network space listed in the slide is publicly routable and almost certainly untranslated. It's possible it's firewalled though.

> Then why are they doing NAT?

Because they sold their IPv4 addresses.

Indeed! The only reason they're doing this is clearly that they want to sell even more IPv4 addresses. Because even with the current /9, it's more than enough to go around the campus.

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