Subject: IPv6 Network Architecture Protection draft

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:00:50 +0200

Hi,

The authors would be interested in comments on the draft below.

    Brian

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> 
> 
> 	Title		: IPv6 Network Architecture Protection
> 	Author(s)	: G. Van de Velde, et al.
> 	Filename	: draft-vandevelde-v6ops-nap-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 25
> 	Date		: 2004-10-12
> 	
> Although there are many perceived benefits to Network Address
>    Translation (NAT), the primary benefit of "amplifying" available
>    address space is not needed in IPv6.  In addition to its many serious
>    disadvantages there is a perception that other benefits exist, such
>    as a variety of management and security reasons that could be useful
>    for an Internet Protocol.  IPv6 does not support NAT by design and
>    this document shows how Network Architecture Protection (NAP) using
>    IPv6 can provide the benefits without the need for NAT.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandevelde-v6ops-nap-00.txt