RE: Action item from yesterday's meeting
"Christian Huitema" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:44:05 -0800
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> > This is not a MIB design discussion. This is a pure semantics > discussion. > > Certainly, we could implement the semantics you are discussion in the > MIB > > with some effort. But first the WG would have to agree on changing > semantics > > that were discussed and agreed on about a year ago. > > > [suresh] Agreed. I ran this by Christian Huitema brifly during the IETF > and I > believe, he was agreeable to the change. The change, after all, doesnt > break > the functionality for traditional NAT and simply extends the semantics for > twice-NAT and other types of NAT. Let's be clear: I don't support the change in semantics, and I believe that specifying a flow by end-to-end addresses is just fine. However, if Suresh can insert the functionality without making the protocol more complex, I have no objection. -- Christian Huitema.