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

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Wed, 04 November 2015 17:06 UTC

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Hi,

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 08:40:18AM -0600, David Farmer wrote:
> > On Nov 4, 2015, at 04:42, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 04:36:05AM +0000, Howard, Lee wrote:
> >> 2. There is consensus that NPT66 is bad, for some of the reasons give in
> >> various NAT44/CGN documents. It might be slightly less bad than NAT66,
> >> since it has slightly fewer of the problems given in those documents.
> > 
> > I don't think there is consensus on that... otherwise we wouldn't have
> > published NTP66.
> 
> Please don't mistake support for publishing a document as support for a technology.

Oh, there might not be consensus to *like* NPT66, but there definitely is
no consensus that "it is bad" either.  I, for one, would object.

As do lots of enterprise networks that like to have it in their toolbox.

*Mandating* NAT is bad (IPv4, CGN, DS-Lite, ...) - "having tools" is *good*.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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