On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> said:
On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
Devil's advocate hat on: NAT (in its most common form) also permits internal addressing to be independent of external addressing.
Which is a bug, not a feature.
That is an opinion (and not a unversally held opinion), not a fact. I tend to agree with you, but you keep stating your opinion as fact. Telling people "I'm right, you're wrong" over and over again leads to them going away and ignoring IPv6.
Using this definition of bug from Wikipedia: A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways. I argue that breaking the end-to-end model which is a documented fundamental tenant of the internet protocol and the internet addressing system is, by definition, within the definition above. Q.E.D. it is, in fact, a bug, not merely my opinion. Others are welcome to consider said bug to be a feature, but, it is, by definition, factually, a bug. Owen