> From: Eric Klein, Sunday, February 01, 2009 7:38 AM
>
> The original threads that lead to this list being created all came down to 
> the basic Boolean question:
>  Do we in the IETF want to allow NAT66 at all in IPv6 even though IPv6 was 
>originally designed not to
> allow it?

Reality check. The IETF has no protocol police, let alone network police. The 
IETF cannot allow or disallow things, at least not through an IETF 
pronouncement. The IETF only has three choices:

1) The Pilatus option: the IETF officially says that it does not like NAT, and 
washes its hand from the outcome.

2) The Attila-the-Hun option: the IETF dislikes NAT so much that it starts 
engineering protocols that absolutely break if someone dare deploy NAT.

3) The Munich option: the IETF recognizes that the evil won't be stopped, so 
dirty its hands and tries a compromise.

Pick your poison.

-- Christian Huitema


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