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Re: IPv6 woes - RFC


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:02:22 -0700

Heh, NAT is not that evil after all. Do you expect that all the home
people will get routable public IPs for all they toys inside house?

in ipv6 they can.  and it can have consequences, see

    NATting Else Matters: Evaluating IPv6 Access Control Policies in
    Residential Networks; 
    Karl Olson, Jack Wampler, Fan Shen, and Nolen Scaife

    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-72582-2_22.pdf

the ietf did not give guidance to cpe vendors to protect toys inside
your LAN

randy


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