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RE: ocean: do not boil



I was thinking Grizzly Bears as they do it quickly so it dont hurt :--)
/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:05 PM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: Keith Moore; itojun@iijlab.net; Stewart Tansley; 
> v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: ocean: do not boil 
> 
> 
> > what I am concerned about is that we don't have mechanisms 
> > for those who want to not do nat at all.
> 
> that's a rather odd statement, or at least I don't understand it.
> surely we have such mechanisms in native v4 and native v6?
> 
> the only legitimate reason to use nat is to compensate for a shortage
> of IPv4 addresses.  if a site can get enough IPv4 addresses to not
> use NAT for v4, or if the site can avoid using v4 altogether, it 
> should never need to use a NAT.
> 
> and anyone who makes a NAT for v6 should be fed to piranha fish.
> 
> Keith
>