Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Mark Smith
I don't think it has been mentioned as a reason why NAT took off, but the other thing that may need to be provided is the "default "security" with no configuration" that these end users believe these NATting (or NATting + firewall) products provide. Of course, tight default security policies a

RE: Note on id/loc separation discussion

2003-09-23 Thread Michel Py
Brian, > Brian Haberman wrote: > [separating the Identifier and Locator aspects of IP addresses.] > even though we would to request that discussion not continue on > the ipv6 mailing list, the chairs do not want to put a stop to > anyone who wishes to continue the investigation. IMHO this is a pu

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Keith Moore wrote: > Benny Amorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing that has not been mentioned so far in the discussion is that > > NAT is empowering many users. It allows them to share connectivity, > > working around draconian policies imposed on them by outside enti

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Droms
DHCPv6 prefix delegation, draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-prefix-delegation-04.txt, provides this capability. Interoperability among several implementations has been demonstrated at TAHI and Connectathon. - Ralph At 03:31 AM 9/24/2003 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote: In order to reach the same ease of conf

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Ralph Droms
draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-prefix-delegation-04.txt The doc has been sent to the IESG for publication. - Ralph At 10:12 PM 9/23/2003 -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > but I strongly agree that autoconfiguration of routers (including the > > ability of a router to ask its upstream routers for a /64 pr

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Eliot Lear
Keith Moore wrote: maybe I'm the one missing something. where is the protocol for this defined? draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-prefix-delegation-03.txt Eliot IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative R

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
> > but I strongly agree that autoconfiguration of routers (including the > > ability of a router to ask its upstream routers for a /64 prefix) is > > a significant missing piece for IPv6. > > Why is this "missing"? Isn't this what prefix-delegation does? maybe I'm the one missing something. wh

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Eliot Lear
Keith Moore wrote: but I strongly agree that autoconfiguration of routers (including the ability of a router to ask its upstream routers for a /64 prefix) is a significant missing piece for IPv6. Why is this "missing"? Isn't this what prefix-delegation does? Eliot

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:31:23 +0200 Benny Amorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that has not been mentioned so far in the discussion is that > NAT is empowering many users. It allows them to share connectivity, > working around draconian policies imposed on them by outside entities > such

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
One thing that has not been mentioned so far in the discussion is that NAT is empowering many users. It allows them to share connectivity, working around draconian policies imposed on them by outside entities such as ISP's. With NAT, any single address can now give access to a whole network, and it

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
> Keith Moore writes: > > > From my SF-centric Nexus-of-the-web-trendiod > > > standpoint: for residential use (especially with > > > broadband) it is simply impossible to have an > > > argument about the evils of NAT. > > > > that's the stupidest thing that's been said here in a long time.

Re: comments on deprecate-site-local-00

2003-09-23 Thread Margaret Wasserman
At 08:57 AM 9/23/2003 +0200, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > True, but if we wish to remain relevant, something has to be written > somewhere. I fully agree that doing so in *this* document may not be > worth it; it might be worth it in some other doc, e.g. sl-impact. I agree with Pekka. HAving this

Updates to Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Autoconfiguration

2003-09-23 Thread Brian Haberman
All, One of our charter items is to produce updates of RFC 2461 and 2462 in order to progress them to Draft Standard. As a part of that effort, I would like to bring to the Work Group's attention, some work that has been done in SEND. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-send-psreq-03

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Mark Smith
As a datapoint, it might be worth reading the comments posted to slashdot relating to this story End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/20/1556253&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=185&tid=95 (And yes, I got sucked into it, and ended up looking like I'd j

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Thomas
Keith Moore writes: > > From my SF-centric Nexus-of-the-web-trendiod > > standpoint: for residential use (especially with > > broadband) it is simply impossible to have an > > argument about the evils of NAT. > > that's the stupidest thing that's been said here in a long time. > > NATs a

RE: why market picked up NATs [Re: Write-ups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Michel Py
> Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > Just out of curiosity, then why bother migrating to IPv6 > at all? What have you gained? Early presence on the market. Michel. IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrativ

Re: Note on id/loc separation discussion

2003-09-23 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Therefore, we suggest that interested parties create a > separate mailing list to discuss the topic of identifier and > locator separation. If needed, the chairs can help arrange > for the creation of an exploratory mailing list. This _does_ touc

Note on id/loc separation discussion

2003-09-23 Thread Brian Haberman
All, The chairs have noted the level of interest garnered by the discussion of separating the Identifier and Locator aspects of IP addresses. There is apparently a high level of interest in exploring possible ways of separating these functionalities and gauging the benefits and downsides.

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
> well use v6 through the NAT :-) so you keep on friendly terms with the folks > who think NAT is a security "must have" and still get to give all real users > an individual IP address. sort of seems like a contradiction - either you have the NAT to provide security or you use the same address fo

RE: why market picked up NATs [Re: Writeups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Christian de Larrinaga
> > > Is it really true that most of the market chose to use NAT > rather than > > tunneling or dual-stack for IPv6 transition mechanism? > > there is zero truth to that. if you're going to use NAT > there is (almost) > no point in using IPv6. > well use v6 through the NAT :-) so you keep on frie

Re: why market picked up NATs [Re: Write-ups on why RFC1918 is bad?]

2003-09-23 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On tisdag, sep 23, 2003, at 07:03 Europe/Stockholm, Michel Py wrote: > I have to say that given the recent trends and developments, I am now > on > the fence WRT joining the camp that says that NAT is unavoidable for v6 > so we might as well make it