On 2007-03-01 18:57, John C Klensin wrote: ...
I continue to believe that, until and unless we come up with models that can satisfy the underlying problems that NATs address in the above two cases and implementations of those models in mass-market hardware, NATs are here to stay, even if we manage to move to IPv6 for other reasons. And, conversely, the perceived difficulties with NATs will be sufficiently overcome by the above issues to prevent those difficulties from being a major motivator for IPv6, at least for most of the fraction of the ISP customer base who cannot qualify for PI space.
This is of course one of the major motivations for draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06.txt, which is now in the RFC Editor's queue. While it doesn't tell SOHO gateway vendors exactly what to do, it does I think make it clear that there is a secure mass market IPv6 way forward that has no need for NAT. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf