On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 19:14, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>  Eric,
>
> The problem here is that you assume that the IETF has decision power that
> can magic away NAT66. Clearly it did not for NAT44 and will not for NAT66.
>

There is a diffrence between doing aways with NAT, allowing natural growth
of NAT, and endorsing NAT.  Of the 3 I only object to the 2nd one.  So we
either kill NAT so dead that it can not be brough back in any form or we
find a way to meet the needs in a way that will not "break the internet" nor
prevent new p2p applications.


>  The only way that the effort being expended to kill NAT66 makes any sense
> is if the idea is to allow this type of argument to be rulled out of scope
> as similar arguments were ruled out of scope when they were brought up in
> existing protocols that simply do not work properly because the design was
> intentionally made to be unfriendly to NAT.
>
>
Agreed, but to do that we need a consensus - and that seems very hard to
reach on this topic


>   If we recognize that there is no consensus that applications that are
> not NAT66-agile will work in future then we should agree that the reasonable
> default requirement for an apps WG should be that it should build a protocol
> that is NAT66 tolerant. But I suspect that there will be severe pushback
> against that.
>
>
> Peter Dambier is right in this case,
>
> I would NAT66 my network for the simple reason that very few endpoint
> devices actually tollerate a change in the IP address without at a minimum a
> service interruption. Since I cannot guarantee that my IPv6 address from my
> ISP will never change I am going to NAT66 my internal network for the sake
> of having static numbering inside the network.
>
> The more infrequent you posit the need for renumbering is, the greater my
> reluctance to allowing it will become. If you have a network event that
> happens only once a year it is going to mean a very serious disruption when
> it happens. DHCP only solves some of the problems, I am still effectively
> forced to perform a reboot, I will lose connections and this will cost me
> real time and money to fix.
>
>
This goes back to the renumbering issue, and I agree it is a real and
signifigant issue. But I am still not convienced that NAT is the only
solution.
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