On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
#1 NAT advantage: it protects consumers from vendor
lock-in.
Speaking of FUD... NAT does nothing here that is not also
accomplished
through the use of PI addressing
If you completely ignore the cost of routing table growth to give
every company their own PI, sure.
#2 NAT advantage: it protects consumers from add-on
fees for addresses space.
More FUD. The correct solution to this problem is to make it possible
for end users to get reasonable addresses directly from RIRs for
reasonable fees.
Reasonable is a hard word. We've had to turn away customers who
wanted to assign a /27 to each and every machine, without actual
justification for more than 3 IPs per machine. Sometimes people want
to do insane things that aren't technically reasonable, but it's what
they want to do. NAT gives them that option.
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