Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at rtfm.com>]

Melinda Shore <mshore at cisco.com> writes:

> > What applications that people want to run--and the IT managers would
> > want to enable--are actually inhibited by NAT? It seems to me that
> > most of the applications inconvenienced by NAT are ones that IT
> > managers would want to screen off anyway.
> 
> Not really.  For example, ftp as originally defined doesn't
> work through NATs, and no standard VoIP or multimedia
> conferencing protocol works through NAT.  
None of these things worked real well through firewalls either,
which is sort of my point.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr at rtfm.com]
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