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Re: IPv6 Confusion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Feb 17 21:23:43 2009

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:23:37 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Steven Lisson" <stevel@dedicatedservers.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <C035DD0A88EFF241A24578B7B8D5B505014B90CB@intranet.mail.hostingshop.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated

the ietf has recanted and is hurriedly trying to get this back on
track.  of course, to save face, the name has to be changed.

> with people talking about carrier grade NATS I think combining
> these with NAT-PT could help with the transition

cgn is not a transition tool.  it is a dangerous hack to deal with
the problems of a few very large consumer isps who lack sufficient
space to number their customer edge.

randy


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