I agree with everything Owen and Albert have been saying in these
latest threads.  Keep up the good fight.

I've been running a dual stacked network for a college for over 10
years now and the rest of the world just needs to hurry up already.
Heck, my home ISP (Mediacom) has given me IPv6 addresses for around 4
years too.  You can't expect to keep running the same stuff for
decades without a firmware/hardware upgrade.  The "internet" is no
different.  Time to apply the upgrade, reboot, and more on.  :)

--Dan

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 2:47 PM Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > The point is that at this time, we should not have to justify nat in order 
> > to permit its standardization. Standardize it and let users figure it out.
>
> Why? It’s a local application only technology not useful on the broader 
> internet, so why bother to standardize it? Why waste time of the standards 
> bodies?
>
> >> Nat also assumes that noone wants to run their own internet services. 
> >> While many things like cameras use a remote server to bypass the NAT 
> >> leading to vendor tiein, things are clearly cleaner if each workstation or 
> >> other device like a camera can run its own publically accessable services. 
> >> Note that this does not mean that firewalls cannot be in place to block 
> >> things that are not intended to be world readable. NAT is NOT a substitute 
> >> for a firewall.
> >
> > It is in IPv4. And lets not encourage camera server and devices to be 
> > globally accessible, we already know that is a disaster.
>
> Actually, I’d suggest the following:
>         1.      NAT Is NOT a substitution for a firewall. It might be 
> integral in the firewall in IPv4, but that’s not the same thing.
>         2.      Are cameras on the public internet a disaster because it was 
> allowed, or are they a disaster because MFRs were
>                 able to assume that NAT would protect them from bad 
> engineering and somehow everyone bought into the idea
>                 that such an assumption and bad engineering was acceptable?
>         3.      I’d argue that switching the expectation from “Everything is 
> behind NAT, so it’s OK to be security-careless” to
>                 “Everything is publicly addressable and might be reachable, 
> therefore security is important” would be very
>                 good for the industry as a whole, not to mention end users. 
> Yes, there will be some pain points as this
>                 transition occurs, but the end result is highly desirable.
>
> >> If you want NAT on the networks you manage, go for it.  All the tech bits 
> >> to make NAT work in IPv6 are there.  Just do not expect the rest of us 
> >> that would like to get back to the end-to-end model to support your 
> >> choice, and I am sure some of your users will wish you did not make that 
> >> choice, because of things they want that may not work in this enviroment.
> >
> > I expect exactly that. I expect you to support peoples ability to make this 
> > choice, since the current alternative is
>
> So you expect everyone else to put in effort to support your choice of 
> technology because you don’t like our choice… Sounds a lot like your reasons 
> earlier claiming we shouldn’t expect v6 to be widely deployed any time soon.
>
> You’ve successfully argued against yourself here. The advantage goes to v6 
> without NAT because it is further along in deployment than any effort to 
> standardize NATv6 (fortunately).
>
> Owen
>
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