On 2010-04-19, at 10:51, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Nick Hilliard: > >> On 19/04/2010 16:14, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: >>> The eyeball ISPs will find it trivial to NAT should they ever need to do >>> so [...] > >> Having made this bold claim, have you ever actually tried to run a natted >> eyeball network? The last two natted eyeball networks I worked with could >> never figure out which aspect of NAT hurt more: the technical side or the >> business side. > > I'm pretty sure the acceptance of NAT varies regionally. I think > there's a large ISP in Italy which has been doing NAT since the 90s. > So it's not just the mobile domain.
I haven't been a customer of an ISP in New Zealand for a long time now, but people there tell me that there is an expectation of NAT when you sign up for DSL service. Nobody normally expects to be handed a globally-unique v4 address. Joe
