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NAT is a hack and it going away will be good.

That being said, you can do NAT on IPv6 if you really want to, and maybe it will be needed to help soothe those with those emotional attachment to certain numbers. [fc00::192:168:1:0]/120 or [fc00::10:44:0:0]/96, for example.




Even with NAT IPv6 is better because the NAT can do 1:1 mapping for every IP inside and does not need to remap ports. There is no port exhaustion and P2P always works.

V6 NAT is unnecessary and dumb but it works better than V4 NAT.




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