Re: ocean: do not boil

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> > not clear to me; if NAT-PT affects how apps work, maybe they
> > need to know it's there so they don't make bogus assumptions.
> >
> One of the projected advantages of NAT-PT is that you dont have to change
> the end hosts/apps. You are now suggesting the exact opposite.

it wasn't true for NAT; it isn't true for NAT-PT either.
NAT lets you get away without changing *some* hosts/apps;
for the rest operation becomes considerably more difficult.

and for many the whole point of IPv6 is to get away from NAT.