[41391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: end2end? (was: RE: Where NAT disenfranchises the end-user ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Fri Sep 7 16:55:16 2001
To: lucifer@lightbearer.com, nanog@merit.edu
Message-Id: <20010907205443.DCE1FC790A@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:54:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| has *any* form of identity
That IP overloads "who" and "what" into one value is a fatal flaw.
NAT forces the IP address to indicate topological _location_ and is
therefore good. Anyone who attempts to use a locator as an identifier
is wrong-headed and deserves no sympathy on the grounds of, "well our
forefathers were wrongheaded too!" and other arguments of that style.
Sean.
