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IETF roiled over NAT
Posted by: Jordi on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 10:18 PM
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If there is one topic that can get the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force worked up, such as they were once again last week, it is the topic of network address translation, or NAT. Here's a snapshot of the debates over the use of NAT as a hindrance to the implementation of IPv6.
Other mailing list members pointed out potential problems with the kind-of-end-to-end connectivity that IPv6 promises. Telemarketing, for instance. Moore asked that if the telemarketers of tomorrow had the same tool spammers today worked with, how often would we receive calls on our Internet telephones for product pitches?

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