On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Michel Py wrote: > > If there is widespread deployment of systems with site-local only > > addresses, this will in turn drive the creation of ipv6 NAT > > specifically to give them external connectivity.. > > That looks like a solution without a problem. To give these hosts > connectivity you just have both the site-local and the global address. > Since NAT would not bring anything to the table why implement it in the > first place?
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