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Title : The Cost of Application Development with NATs
Author(s) : T. Chown, et al.
Filename : draft-chown-cost-of-nat-00.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 2006-6-22
The deployment of IP Network Address Translators (NATs) for IPv4 has
become very pervasive in the last 10-12 years. The original goal of
NAT was to conserve IP address space, but the technology has now
become very popular in home and SOHO type networks, as well as many
larger organisations, for a variety of reasons. At the same time,
the introduction of NAT adds a cost for application and service
developers. This document presents a brief overview of the history
of NAT, alongside a list of ongoing work related to NAT workarounds
for current IETF protocol designs. The document intends to present a
neutral view of the cost of NAT for discussion in the IETF and wider
community.
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