Keith Moore wrote:
RJ Atkinson wrote:
Gentle People,

  At the 6AI BOF held at IETF last week, there seemed to be
rough consensus on the definitions for these 2 terms:

IPv6 NAT:    Generic term for any sort of NAT/NAPT/SAT
        for IPv6::IPv6 deployment

NAT66:        Precise, specific, term for the proposal
        documented in draft-mrw-behave-nat66-*.txt

I think it's useful to be able to describe not just IPv6-to-IPv6 NAT,
but any kind of NAT between IPvx and IPvy.  Since there's already some
established use for NAT66 and some other examples of that pattern, I
suggest we use the pattern xyNAT for NATs between x and y.

But aren't 6-6 and 4-6 special gateway cases that have to do special things anyway and calling them NATs, while technically correct, masks their larger role? They are REALLY needed in the 4/6 transition scheme of things.


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