Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06.txt

[Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>]

Hi All,

I would like to understand why the title of this document was changed  
at the last minute.  I also have at least a minor objection to the  
new title, particularly to what it means by the word "protection".

The word "protection" in the original title referred to protecting  
the end-to-end Internet architecture (the network architecture) from  
NAT.  In other words, we could use certain facilities in IPv6 instead  
of NAT as a way to protect the end-to-end nature of IPv6 networks.

What does the word protection mean now, though?  That the facilities  
in this document protect the local network?  From what?

Margaret


On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:50 PM, Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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> This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Operations Working Group of  
> the IETF.
>
> 	Title		: Local Network Protection for IPv6
> 	Author(s)	: G. Van de Velde, et al.
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06.txt
> 	Pages		: 46
> 	Date		: 2007-1-11
> 	
> Although there are many perceived benefits to Network Address
>    Translation (NAT), its primary benefit of "amplifying" available
>    address space is not needed in IPv6.  In addition to NAT's many
>    serious disadvantages, there is a perception that other benefits
>    exist, such as a variety of management and security attributes that
>    could be useful for an Internet Protocol site.  IPv6 was designed
>    with the intention of making NAT unnecessary, and this document  
> shows
>    how Local Network Protection (LNP) using IPv6 can provide the  
> same or
>    more benefits without the need for address translation.
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