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Personally I'm all for that but people & packages seem to be pretty promiscuous about listen address defaults and assuming everything behind a routers NAT is trusted.

Treating the network as untrusted is good but as long as some people are paying for service, traffic and bandwidth there are reasons to not allow anything to use your network. And there is also a legal question of liability if someone is not quite above board from your IP.




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