> That's a terrible idea, because it would pander to the myths that > NAT is a security or policy tool. Brian, Several comments in this thread have suggested that security is the primary driver for NAT. While it is surely a factor, I believe the dominant driver for NAT is addressing autonomy. Unless/until enterprise (or even home) network operators have some number of bits of address to call their own, without risk of forced change or being held hostage to their ISP, you will have NAT for v6 just like for v4. I think you can take that to the bank. (Note that autoconf doesn't remove this need... enterprise operators will have local host addresses sprinkled throughout a plethora of departmental traffic disruption appliances, so renumbering will be viewed by many as a non-starter.) -teg _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf