>>>>> "Brian" == Brian E Carpenter <Brian> writes:
>> Must support a "walled-garden" network. This might routing based
>> on either source address (from the walled garden network) or
>> destination address (to the walled garden network); support for
>> both is not required.
Brian> I thought that the IETF was about the Internet, so we
Brian> shouldn't be assisting the creation of walled
Brian> gardens. However, source-address-based selection of the next
No, the IETF is about commuication using the internet (suite of) protocols.
The Internet is just the biggest garden out there.
Not supporting walled gardens (which are globally uniquely numbered, but
not globally reachable) leads to NAT66 at the border gateways.
(And, we still don't seem to accept packets from Mars. All sorts of
advice about doing Martian filtering...)
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