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Re: IPv6 news

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Oct 16 00:08:52 2005

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 16 Oct 2005 04:08:26 +0000
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drc@virtualized.org (David Conrad) writes:

> On Oct 15, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Tony Li wrote:
> > When we explored site multihoming (not rehoming) in the ways that  
> > you seem to suggest, it was effectively a set of coordinated NAT  
> > boxes around the periphery of the site.  That was rejected quite  
> > quickly.
> 
> What were the reasons for rejection?

i wasn't there for that meeting.  but when similar things were proposed
at other meetings, somebody always said "no! we have to have end-to-end,
and if we'd wanted nat-around-every-net we'd've stuck with IPv4."
-- 
Paul Vixie

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