From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Harrington [ietfdbh@xxxxxxxxxxx] > I said (feel free to check the session recording, (ch3-fri-am 1:25), > which is where I got the following text from): > > "I want to make sure you do not spend a tremendous amount of time > designing something that works for all kinds of NATs, because our goal > is to get rid of NATs [said with a grin]. It's not everybody's goal > obviously. The IESG wants to see the migration to IPv6 completed, and > one of the things that we are seriously pushing back on is anything > that will help you keep NATs around longer so you can keep IPv4 around > longer, because we believe that's a bad solution to the runout of IPv4 > addressing. We recognize that right now you need to deal with IPv4 > networks, so therefore you have to deal with this, but don't build a > lot of assumptions into your core protocol because we really want it > to run over IPv6 more than we want it to run over IPv4." To my ear, that sounds a lot like what Hadriel said. Certainly "one of the things that we are seriously pushing back on is anything that will help you keep NATs around longer" sounds to me like discouragement of any comprehenaive (or even effective) NAT traversal mechanism. > and later "we're trying to get people to go to IPv6. If you are > building something that will encourage people to stay on IPv4 even > longer, when you send this into the IESG you will get pushback." > > Maybe my language was not as well considered as it should have been, > but it is my understanding that IETF consensus is to have the industry > transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Certainly the IETF *consensus* is to have the industry transition from IPv4 to IPv6. But just as firmly, the IETF *realization* is that IPv4 will be around for another decade or more, with NATs, and if we want our protocols to be used, we're going to have to deal with it. I'm sure that if the IETF does not provide ongoing IPv4 support, Microsoft will do so... Dale _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf