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Re: translation issues

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:41:23 -0800, Alain Durand wrote:

> Most of the issues you mention are not exactly properties of NAT
> (or a NAT IPv6->IPv4), but properties of the DNS-ALG:
> 	- breaking DNSsec
> 	- getting unwanted translated address

We tried to write down _all_ the issues involved with translation,
including NAT, NAT-PT, NAPT-PT, DNS-ALG, etc.

> I've long argued that if you remove the DNS-ALG piece of the picture,
> things become simpler.
> 
> I'm planing to write a document before the cut-off date to summarize the
> discussion Itojun & I had a little while back to compare a DNS-ALG
> solution to a well know prefix one.

We intentionally refrained from suggesting solutions. We only wanted to
write down the issues in an objective manner.

Other drafts, like yours, should describe if we want/can solve all the
issues.

	rvdp