Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Jon Crowcroft]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. Noel Chiappa" typed:

 >>The various approaches to growing the Internet (IPv6, NAT's, etc) all have
 >>costs and benefits -

yes, but propviders don't actually ASK the users what the COST is of a
NAT

the BT ADSL trial in london uses NATs and all the folks i know who are
what BT might call "advanced" users (i.e. people who want to export
files on web servers, use multicast apps etc), find it a
REAL PAIN in the backside
comapred to their old school/university 'always on' access

but at no point in any of the market research on the trial users did
the provider bother asking about this, so they remain clueless....as
do many NAT Proponents.

 cheers

   jon