-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hain [mailto:tony(_at_)tndh(_dot_)net]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:23 PM
To: 'irtf-chair(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org'; 'iab(_at_)iab(_dot_)org';
'iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org'
Cc: 'ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org'
Subject: Why?
Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT traversal
crap???
All week people have been telling me that IPv6 has to show a clear value,
but those same people are totally writing off the cost of their effort to
define the array of NAT traversal schemes, the cost of vendors to build
that crap, then the extensive cost of network managers to operate the
complex environments that end up being created by this house of cards. It
is long past time that any protocol that requires a NAT helper is just a
non-starter and the WG should be closed.
On another topic, why is it that the API is so sacred that we will create
a massive array of complex approaches to avoid defining a real session
layer. We put imitation session efforts at layer 4 (SCTP), layer 3.5
(HIP),
layer 3.25 (shim), and the TRILL crap is trying to do it at layer 2.5.
Doing things the hard way allows smart people to feel they are important,
but it doesn't make the network work better.
Tony
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