> Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead. Agreed. But you can use private networks without NAT. In fact, 99%

> Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead. Agreed. But you can use private networks without NAT. In fact, 99% of traffic in the private network doesn't need NAT. Only outside traffic does, and only that which can't use proxies etc. - which is pretty small amount of overall traffic, I think.