[ppml] Policy Proposal 2003-15: IPv4 Allocation Policy for the Africa Portion of the ARIN Region

[Abdul Rehman Gani]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 05:56, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Abdul Rehman Gani wrote:
> 

> Alot of our customers use NAT too, primarily because the average business 
> connecting to the net has no need for all their windows boxes to be 
> directly exposed to the internet.  We don't "do NAT" on our network for 
> customers though...it's done on CPE.  Are you saying that some African 
> ISPs are running portions of their network behind NAT that ISPs in the US 
> generally would not?

No us, but I cannot speak for all ISP's. We do it on CPE.

> 
> What's the motivation behind "saving space"?  I don't really worry about 

Managing a scarce resource.

Abdul