Patrick Frejborg allegedly wrote on 10/27/2009 2:33 PM: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Scott Brim <[email protected]> wrote: >> Eliot Lear allegedly wrote on 10/27/2009 12:12 PM: >>> On 10/26/09 3:36 PM, Scott Brim wrote: >>>> - NAT is now architecture. The IETF needs to decide how much NAT it >>>> wants the Internet to have in the future. This strongly influences >>>> what we do in routing/addressing, because outlying, dwindling cases >>>> (either the NAT ones or the non-NAT ones) can be handled specially. >>> Do people believe that a scalable bidirectional connection model is >>> something that the layer 3 architecture (a) should support and (b) does >>> support under the above constraint? >> If I understand correctly, I believe it is fundamentally important. >> However, it can be handled through various dynamic lookup services (e.g. >> DNS), no? >> > > I agree and find this approach very interesting - then is this a layer > 3 issue or the next layer? > > -- patte >
It's in the "infrastructure services" that support one layer using the next, e.g. resolving IP addresses. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
