Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 25 November 2008 21:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers
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On 2008-11-26 22:23, Rémi Després wrote:
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> The already existing NAT66, which is derived from NAT44, and is stateful, is 
> named the "stateful NAT66" (SF-NAT66 or NAT66-SF); the new one, which is 
> stateless, is named the "stateless NAT66" (SL-NAT66 or NAT66-SL).

This still "allows" two different objects to exist in the market,
simply by defining two names. I think it is much better that
the distinction be between "RFC5xxx NAT66" and undocumented proprietary
NAT66.

Alternatively, I propose
Stateless Locally Useful Translation between IPv6 and IPv6 (SLUT66)   ;-)

  Brian

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