Re: An idea: GxSE

["Jon (Taz) Mischo" <taz@tazlore.com>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> > GxSE and NAT are mutually exclusive technologies.
> 
> I once characterised 8+8 as "architected NAT", and both GSE and GxSE 
> fall into that category - essentially by clearly separating the mutable
> (locator) part from the immutable (identifier) part. I suspect that
> this separation will turn out to be a required property of the multi6
> solution, and there are a number of ways to achieve it.

Agreed, I was saying that just to prove how opinionated I am on the
subject.  If you read on, though, I THINK I wrote that GxSE basically
takes lessons learned from NAT and applies them and multihoming practices
to v6.  This may, however, be what I forgot what I was writing the above.

I'm really just trying to say that GxSE is being discussed as a way to
avoid having to use true NAT (where the entire address is translated, as
is the definiteion of NAT) by making a similar mechanism part of the
addressing scheme natively.

-Taz

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