But what do U say about people using it at home ....SOHO One is not going to buy 3 IP's if someone tries to use it at home. The objective is to make Internet accessible to everybody at the least $ out of pocket. We should not forget that. Vivek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu> To: "Harald Koch" <chk@pobox.com> Cc: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu>; <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: Re: Netmeeting - NAT issue > > 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. And it's not the fact that people are selling > NAT that I find objectionable, it's the fact that they are marketing > them as a general purpose solution - misleading people about their > applicability - rather than a stopgap measure. > > Keith