On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 12:01:33PM -0500, Sean M. Doran wrote:

Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com> writes:

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Test market a dialup service at a reduced rate that gives people a private space address behind a proxy server.

No, implement NAT in such a way that you can roll this service out without anyone noticing, except in the difficult case where an "inside" and "outside" address collision is triggered by using IP addresses rather than DNS names.

Then once you've rolled it out, you can assign static IP addresses, large address ranges, and other popular shopping-list items that a number of users seem to want, to the extent that they are a market differentiator that in the absence of NAT favours less-conserving ISPs.

Large address ranges, yes. But the people who want static addresses, by and large, want them precisely _because_ they are routable and visible. Why is this so hard to understand? Cheers, - -jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592