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Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-04-20 09:50:01
At 09:59 AM 4/20/00 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
This draft is very incomplete and in my opinion not ready for prime
time.  The working group has in the past requested lists of protocols
and applications which do not work with NATs.  I have replied
discussing those items for which I am most familiar:

[...snipped]

I think everyone agrees that the draft is incomplete. I've been begging for 
input for over a year now in the NAT WG meetings and on the NAT list. I've 
also asked every IETF WG chair for input. Our hope is that through IETF 
last call, we will get enough contributions such as yours to get a 
reasonable document together that folks can reference.

I am not on the NAT mailing list; nor do I attend NAT working group
meetings.  I consider NATs to be architecturally unsound and that the
IETF and IESG should in no way endorse their use or development.

All of the energy and money being spent on NATs could and should be
spent to begin the migration to IPv6 instead.  It is my hope now that
Windows 2000 supports IPSec that enough pressure will be applied to
halt the deployment of NATs



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