Alright, I'm going to bow out of the discussion as it's clear that the bickering going on here is mostly tangential to discussion of the specific proposal that the authors have put forward...and is probably not helping them accomplish what they intended to accomplish. For any part I played in helping the discussion stray off track, I apologize, Fred and Margaret. My initial response was simply to illustrate that the particular proposal still would not meet my organizations particular usage case and try to provide some detail of what that usage case entailed. That's perfectly fine, not every proposal needs to be applicable to every usage case. Beyond that, I got drawn into defending the rationale behind the particular usage case I described and, by extension, my professional competency for holding that rationale. Probably a discussion I should not have allowed myself to be baited into.
I'll be happy to answer any particulars about the usage case I am looking to see filled or my rationale behind that usage case, off-list..... so as not to clutter up this list with topics not relevant to it. The one, on list suggestion, I might offer would be to consider amending the title of the draft to clarify that it is a bit of different animal from NAT44 simply transplanted into IPv6 and/or perhaps include a statement in the introduction that the draft is not intended to address the other PERCEIVED benefits of NAT44 (simple security, network abstraction, etc). Some may question whether said perception of benefits is accurate or not but I don't think it's arguable that the PERCEPTION at least is fairly wide spread. That way, individuals who WERE looking for those perceived benefits would know, right up front, that they were looking in the wrong place for them. The word "stateless" should generally imply to the reader that such other functionality isn't included in this draft, but I think it's better to be explicit when conveying such information rather then relying on the reader to draw implicit conclusions. Christopher Engel Network Infrastructure Manager SponsorDirect [email protected] www.SponsorDirect.com p(914) 729-7218 f (914) 729-7201 _______________________________________________ nat66 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nat66
