On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:45:25AM -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
>
> If we are serious about NAT != SL, then we should enforce it.

Well, I find this attitude (it's widespread on this list) bizarre ...
if SLAs =/=> NAT  (SLAs do not cause NAT) then we don't need to
worry about it.

> Suppose for example that we change our spec to forbid any communication
> between addresses of different scopes.

... but that sounds fair enough to me.  Scopes are scopes. 
Your return address has to be in scope at the destination.

> This simple suggestion will in fact prevent using SL in the NAT
> scenario,

It will prevent _Standards Compliant_ client implementations from
using NAT, but as we both know many vendors loosely interpret
standards in any case. 

-- 
Nick 'Sharkey' Moore  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  <http://zoic.org/sharkey>
"If you can keep your cynicism when all around are losing theirs..."
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