[ipv6-wg] RFC 1918 in "production networks" (was IPv6 experiments at future RIPE Meetings)

Hi, i must say i second Gert and Jan their position against the use of 
NAT, for pretty much the same stated reasons.

Apart from all the tecnical details of what will work/not work/possible 
not work, and any personal position about the good and the bad of 
NATting, please note that enabling NAT on the meeting network would be 
against the currently running laws of at least one of the country 
hosting one of the next RIPE meetings: Italy (for any of you interested 
on it it's art. 6, comma 5, d.lgs 109/2008)

Which, roughly translated, states that starting from march 21 2009 "any 
access provider, providing public connectivity (which means connecting 
people to the Internet), must ensure effective avalability and unicity 
of ip addresses assigned to the end user.

Which means that if you want to comply to the law you MUST assign a 
public ip address to any user you connect (and by the way if you give 
internet access on public locations you should also be able to track 
down the identity of each single user that has connected, including a 
copy of an ID document or some other allowed certain identification 
methods).

No need to comment on that law, no one here in Italy really likes it at 
all, but that's it, up to now, and at least until next december 31st we 
do have to live with it.

I think the chances of network abuses during a RIPE meeting are quite 
low, but i really would avoid seeing a RIPE meeting pushing, even if 
indirectly and unwanted, some unlawful behaviour.

Thanks,
Ricky