Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-ula-usage-recommendations - work or abandon?

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Sun, 08 November 2015 05:25 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:25:34 +0900
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-ula-usage-recommendations - work or abandon?
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:

> On 06/11/2015 00:20, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
>
> It breaks any application that requires that the application know its
> source address. Examples are SIP, FTP, audio/video chat, etc.
>
> your argument is the wrong way around: some protocols deliberately
> introduce layering violations by demanding that transport identifier
> information is encoded at the application layer.  Transport identifier
> translation merely shows up this brokenness.  The brokenness is not with
> the translation mechanism but with the higher level protocols.
>

Nope. Those protocols aren't broken, they worked fine for years until NAT
arrived and broke them. They still work fine on networks that operate the
way the Internet was originally designed with end-to-end connectivity.