Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Tue, 11 July 2000 07:20 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt
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> What I oppose strongly, is that people sell weird stuff and call it Internet.

I've never seen a marketing person that wouldn't lie and do exactly that.
If folks want to buy wierd stuff, and they know it's wierd stuff and
are aware of its limitations, I don't have much problem with that.
But I've yet to see a NAT product that was advertised honestly.