Keith;
> > I think you missed the important point. It's not the NAT vendors, it's
> > the ISPs.
>
> I'll grant that ISPs have something to do with it. But there is a
> shortage of IPv4 addresses, so it's not as if anybody can have as
> many as they want.
Wrong.
There actually is no shortage of IPv4 addresses.
The primary reason of why NAT is so popular is that NICs do not offer
IPv4 addresses promptly, because NICs feared shortage of IPv4 addresses.
The wrong policy on IPv4 address assignment made NAT profittable.
Masataka Ohta1
