On 20/1/21 17:25, Joe Touch wrote:
On Jan 20, 2021, at 12:07 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
0) Nowhere does the 'end to end' principle demand that the source and destination addresses on an IP packet remain constant
IP addresses is the only means for identifying an Internet endpoint per RFC 1122. While I agree that there may be utility of having proxied endpoints (e.g. NATs) with effectively internal addresses behind them, it doesn’t help the case to begin with this inaccurate assertion.
I'd have agreed with you. BUt since
draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming has been approved by the
IESG, you probably cannot make such assertion anymore.
Thanks,
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