Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

[Randy Bush]

>> Most users are not networking geeks.  They like NAT because NAT boxes
>> make what they want to do so easy.
>
> presumably they don't realize that the NATs are making it hard 
> to do other things that they might want to do.
> 
> I wonder...how many of these folks really want network address 
> translation, versus those who just want the other things that
> NAT boxes often do?   (DHCP, firewall, hub, router, all with 
> really easy setup)
> 
> maybe we need to make it as easy to connect a small net to the 
> Internet, as it is to connect a host. 
> 
> Keith

bingo!

[ as easy for all parties, the user and the upstream ]