Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Roger Marquis wrote:

> William Herrin wrote:
> > > Not to take issue with either statement in particular, but I think there
> > > needs to be some consideration of what "fail" means.
> >
> > Fail means that an inexperienced admin drops a router in place of the
> > firewall to work around a priority problem while the senior engineer
> > is on vacation. With NAT protecting unroutable addresses, that failure
> > mode fails closed.
>
> In addition to fail-closed NAT also means:
>
>  * search engines and and connectivity providers cannot (easily)
>  differentiate and/or monitor your internal hosts, and
Right, because nobody has figured out Javascript and Cookies.

>  * multiple routes do not have to be announced or otherwise accommodated
>  by internal re-addressing.
I fail to see how NAT even affects this in a properly structured network.

Owen