Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Keith Moore]

> Many of the people who have deployed NATs are responding directly to the
> address scarcity (and resultant cost). If you consider that many ISPs now
> have different pricing models for multiple IP addresses than they do for a
> single (regardless of bandwidth used), it isn't surprising. 

no, not surprising (and in fact some people predicted it), but 
it is surely unfortunate.

> I also think
> that it's interesting to consider that security concerns are the other
> primary reason for use of NAT.

this is indeed used as a selling point for NATs, but it's just snake oil.
the security benefits of NAT are dubious at best.

Keith