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NATs necessary for IPv6, says IETF chair
Posted by: Jordi on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 03:20 PM
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We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to eliminate the need for NATs on the Internet. Here's what Housley had to say.
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