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Title : On the Harmfulness of Address Translation
Author(s) : C. Vogt
Filename : draft-vogt-address-translation-harmfulness-00.txt
Pages : 3
Date : 2009-3-4
Address translation is widely considered harmful because its existing
variants conflict with well-established design principles of the
Internet engineering community. Still, address translation has
become common practice despite technical problems because it constitutes an easy-to-deploy solution to a set of common operational
needs. Since some of these needs will continue to exist in IP
version 6, there is concern within the Internet engineering community
about the potential proliferation of harmful technology from IP
version 4 to IP version 6. This paper investigates these concerns.
It analyzes feasible address translator designs, explains why the
problems of address translation, as used today, are to a significant
extent specific to IP version 4, and shows how the problems can be
mitigated in IP version 6.
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