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Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:46:49 +0100
On 9-nov-04, at 17:09, Leo Bicknell wrote:
Indeed, NAT is being pushed by some vendors as a migration tool from IPv4 to IPv6. I have to believe if the code can do IPv4-IPv6 NAT, then doing IPv6 NAT to IPv6 NAT would be trivial.
There is a very big difference about NAT in IPv4 and NAT in IPv6, though:
In IPv4, you can't ignore NAT because it's too widespread and it's impossible to iradicate it because there isn't enough address space. So people are bending over backwards to make their stuff NAT compatible. However, there is plenty of address space in IPv6 to go NATless, so protocol desingers and implementers are unlikey to add NAT workarounds for IPv6. This means it's very unlikely that applications that don't use simple client/server communication are going to work with NAT in IPv6.
Current thread:
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested, (continued)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Sascha Lenz (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Ted Hardie (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Randy Bush (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Jeroen Massar (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Leo Bicknell (Nov 09)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Alex Bligh (Nov 09)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Måns Nilsson (Nov 10)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Jeroen Massar (Nov 09)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 09)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Leo Bicknell (Nov 09)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Pekka Savola (Nov 09)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 10)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Daniel Roesen (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Pekka Savola (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Daniel Senie (Nov 08)
- Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 09)