Allocations for "always-on" ISPs

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Neil J. McRae wrote:

> NAT is your friend - very few home users need real IP addresses.

NAT is our enemy.  It effectively turns the customer's IP access into
something which is not the real Public Internet -- more like an intranet,
offering access to a subset of the Public Internet.

In time, this must and will prove detrimental to all those involved.
Sadly, many ISPs consider this type of service a valid offering to
un-suspecting customers.

It may work for now, but it's not anything like the real Internet.  And
access customers are increasingly becoming aware of this.

With regards to running out of IPv4 address space, who cares.  Let's run
out of them, and spawn a public discussion of why people are not focusing
on IPv6 development and deployment.

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