[99643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Durand)
Mon Oct 1 09:25:22 2007
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:20:12 -0400
From: Alain Durand <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
CC: <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 9/29/07 11:10 PM, "John Curran" <jcurran@mail.com> wrote:
>
> The irony is that the I* rationale for moving NAT-PT to historic
> was "to restore the end-to-end transparency of the Internet"
>
>
> ===> John,
>
> With all due respect, I will recommend you to read 4966, reasons to move
> NAT-PT to historical
>
> Abstract
>
> This document discusses issues with the specific form of IPv6-IPv4
> protocol translation mechanism implemented by the Network Address
> Translator - Protocol Translator (NAT-PT) defined in RFC 2766. These
> issues are sufficiently serious that recommending RFC 2766 as a
> general purpose transition mechanism is no longer desirable, and this
> document recommends that the IETF should reclassify RFC 2766 from
> Proposed Standard to Historic status.
>
> - Alain.
>
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Translator - Protocol Translator (NAT-PT) defined in RFC =
2766. These<BR>
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general purpose transition mechanism is no longer desirab=
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document recommends that the IETF should reclassify RFC 2=
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Proposed Standard to Historic status.<BR>
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