Re: NAT-PT Applicabilty for 3GPP

[Suresh Satapati <satapati@cisco.com>]

Its a matter of how you deploy B, that translates to pain felt
locally or globally

Our document actually does mention the restricted deployment of B.
Besides there is no need to reinvent the wheel when there is B sitting
at PS. One could go and build what they need out of B.

--
Suresh

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Randy Bush wrote:

> > In the above, though a SIP-specific translation mechanism is being
> > recommended, I do not see how the recommended solution will be
> > fundamentally different from NAT-PT. In this sense, the applicability
> > of NAT-PT is still valid.
>
> if A is a proper subset of B, a need for A does not mandate B,
> especially if A is a very localized hack and B is global, generic,
> and questionable.
>
> randy
>
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