margaret-- I went through my archives of the list. We've discussed the naming confusion issue before, but I don't think a consensus emerged. Here's what I proposed:
Begin forwarded message: > From: james woodyatt <[email protected]> > Date: April 1, 2009 08:56:07 PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nat66] The case for the name SAT66 to mean stateless NAT66 > > On Apr 1, 2009, at 08:41 , Fred Baker wrote: >> >> That said, I think Remi has made a good suggestion here. Calling it >> Stateless Address Translation makes sense, I think. > > I could accept either of the following as improvements to the existing order: > > + Stateless IPv6-to-IPv6 Address Translation (SAT66) > + IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (6NPT) > > I prefer the latter term, but the former is fine too. > > I'd prefer either of these over NAT66 on the grounds that I expect it to be > easier to teach people that this new and different thing they've never heard > of before still breaks some applications, than to try to teach people that > conventional NAT44 means dynamic per-host state, NAT64 means dynamic per-host > state, but NAT66 means no dynamic state. > > On Apr 1, 2009, at 08:49 , Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: >> >> "NAT" does not mean that it's stateful or stateless. It means it's doing >> translation. Using a separate word for stateless IPv6-IPv6 NAT will just add >> to the confusion at this point. > > Another reason I prefer IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (6NPT). It still > says translation, but it explicitly constrains the translation to network > prefixes only. When the latest revision of I-D.mrw-nat66 appeared and the name had not changed, I assumed that we were still using NAT66 to refer specifically to the proposal in the draft we have, and that we do not yet have a good way to refer to the sort of IPv6 network address/port translation that Mr. Engel and Mr. Marquis have been so vigorously advocating on the list recently. -- james woodyatt <[email protected]> member of technical staff, communications engineering _______________________________________________ nat66 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nat66
