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Avoiding the terminology confusion with NAT66

Le 3 août 2010 à 22:49, Dan Wing a écrit :
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>>> If the industry (IETF and the press and authors of books) are going
>> to
>>> overload the meaning of NAT66 to include Port Address Translation, it
>>> will have the same negative effect as the overloaded NAT(44) name.
>> 
>> In my understanding, this overloading is already here, and is
>> unavoidable.
>> It is downloading a natural and popular meaning that is IMHO a mistake.
> 
> If so, I encourage Margaret and Fred to not use NAT66 for their 
> specification.  Rather, "IPv6 Prefix Rewriting".  "6pr" almost rolls off
> the tongue.

+1 for this new name

Other names could do it too, e.g. PT66 for prefix translation, or SPT for Stateless Prefix Translation, whatever Margaret and:or the majority would prefer, provided it isn't NAT66.

Regards,
RD