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Re: v6ops-nat64-pb-statement-req: Scoping and title



On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
In any case I think the notions of "internal" and
"external" are not well-defined in a network which
mixes regions of pure IPv6, regions of pure IPv4
and dual-stack regions. Also, NAT terminology tends to
be based on the distinction between private ambiguous
and public global addresses, which makes no sense
for IPv6.

FWIW, it's possible to build a router (or NAT) that has a single logical interface. The draft assumes at least two interfaces. Not that such boxes are very widely deployed in practise.. :-)

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