[111639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Feb 9 19:23:11 2009
To: matthew@eeph.com
From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:00:12 -0800."
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:22:58 +1100
Cc: north American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
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In message <4990C38C.8060007@eeph.com>, Matthew Kaufman writes:
> Owen DeLong wrote:
> > In terms of implementing the code, sure, the result is about the same,
> > but, the key point here is that there really isn't a benefit to having that
> > packet mangling code in IPv6.
>
> Unless your SOX auditor requires it in order to give you a non-qualified
> audit of your infrastructure.
The SOX auditor ought to know better. Any auditor that
requires NAT is incompenent.
> The real problem with IPv6 deployment is not that it can't be done, but
> that there are so many still-to-be-answered questions between here and
> there...
And the only way to answer them is to go ahead and find the
gaps. Waiting and waiting won't find the problems and will
just put you under more time presure.
Mark
> Matthew Kaufman
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