On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> said: >> On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Karl Auer wrote: >>> Devil's advocate hat on: NAT (in its most common form) also permits >>> internal addressing to be independent of external addressing. >>> >> Which is a bug, not a feature. > > That is an opinion (and not a unversally held opinion), not a fact. I > tend to agree with you, but you keep stating your opinion as fact. > Telling people "I'm right, you're wrong" over and over again leads to > them going away and ignoring IPv6. > Using this definition of bug from Wikipedia:
A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways. I argue that breaking the end-to-end model which is a documented fundamental tenant of the internet protocol and the internet addressing system is, by definition, within the definition above. Q.E.D. it is, in fact, a bug, not merely my opinion. Others are welcome to consider said bug to be a feature, but, it is, by definition, factually, a bug. Owen