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Re: NAT-PT: To deprecate or not to deprecate: the question for next w eek's v6ops discussion

A third possibility could be,

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Elwyn Davies wrote: 
  o Deprecate NAT-PT altogther and write other drafts with 'offspring of
NAT-PT' to
    cover the specialised use cases where a translator is useful, or
  o Turn this into a new applicability draft recommending only a very
limited set
    of uses, and produce modifications to cater for some of the specialised
use cases.


(Writing strictly as another bozo on the bus..)

o retain the tone of the draft, but instead of complete deprecation of NAT-PT, just classify it as Experimental.

There's precedent for that. We want to send a clear message that NAT-PT is not good, but on the other hand, in some cases it might be the only alternative.

Experimental might do that: send a sufficiently clear signal, while still acknowledging that there may be somoe uses for it, and more investigation of the problem space might be warranted.

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