Allocations for "always-on" ISPs

Graham;

> >> 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.
> 
> - Morning 
> I've been watching this thread for a few days.
> I fail to see your point,  why are so many people against NAT? in an isp
> situation.. 

Performance.

> I admit it rasies an (slight) overhead and perhaps some latency
> but for the majority of your average ISP customers its ideal 
> Why does Joe Blogs checking his mail and doing some surfing for books
> on amazon require a public  ip address???

To watch TV over broadband network.

							Masataka Ohta