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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

"Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org> Mon, 31 March 2003 21:13 UTC

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From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, alh-ietf@tndh.net
Cc: 'Margaret Wasserman' <mrw@windriver.com>, 'Christian Huitema' <huitema@windows.microsoft.com>, 'Keith Moore' <moore@cs.utk.edu>, ietf@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:07:06 -0600
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Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com>
> Right up till the point where two companies start communicating with
> one another directly with site-locals.  Even if there is a router frob to
> keep the scopes scoped, you can bet it won't be used until someone
> realizes that the above problem occurred.

I've dealt with many companies interconnecting where both use RFC1918
space -- NAT is the first thing discussed.  You forget, these people are
connecting for a _business reason_ and there is real money to be lost if
they mess up.  It's a totally different engineering model than the public
Internet.

S

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