Re: on NAT-PT

[Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]

>>	unfortunately there's no documentation.
>>	this is universally bad because
>>	(1) it requires every node to configure the translation prefix manually
>>	(kills spirit of autoconfigured hosts), or to cook up DHCPv6 option for
>>	it (horrid idea),
>It could be a well know prefix. You won't have to configure a special 
>prefix for that.

	that's much more sick.

>>	our changelog shows that the feature (to specify translation prefix
>>	via environment variable, which in turn controls getaddrinfo(3)) was
>>	dropped in January 2000.
>You can always put it back in ;-)

	i don't think so.

>Remember, this is for IPv6-only nodes,
>the kind that is not yet largely deployed.

	it also applies to IPv6/v4 dual stack nodes with IPv4 not configured.

itojun