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Re: IESG position on NAT traversal and IPv4/IPv6

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Wed, 17 November 2010 13:12 UTC

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Martin Rex wrote:

>> According to your theory, a universal NAT traversal protocol
>> should already exists.
> 
> Correct.  It is called the HTTP CONNECT method.

If, with your definition of "traversal", tunneling is a form
of traversal, tunneling by IPSEC is a standard firewall
traversal protocol and is much better than HTTP CONNECT
because of UDP.

So, we are done.

						Masataka Ohta

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