[arin-ppml] inevitability of NAT?

[Scott Helms]

On 2/9/2011 5:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> End users want to be able to do their hosted games on their Playstation. End users want to be able to get to their home networks through services like Go2mypc or whatever it's called (I don't need a service, I don't use NAT, so, I don't pay a lot of attention to the services available).

I can't name a mass market service today that doesn't work through NAT 
and the ones you point out are certainly do.

Playstation Network works, by design, flawlessly through NAT and is 
_not_ a peer to peer application.  All traffic goes to the PSN servers 
and then to clients.  Go2MyPC is designed for NAT and in fact one could 
argue that it wouldn't exist if NAT weren't wide spread.
> End users want stuff that works today to work tomorrow.
>
> All of those things represent a strong interest in avoiding LSN at  the carrier level.

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