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RFC 5902 was published last week by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) to establish its stance on the potential standardization of IPv6 network address translation (NAT). This informational RFC summarizes popular arguments which have been cited in support of employing NAT for IPv6. A brief review is provided in this article. (For the purposes of this article, the term NAT is meant to include port address translation.)

Arguments for IPv6 NAT Renumbering Avoidance

Use: Without NAT, an organization which has addressed its network using provider-assigned (PA) public address space must re-address its entire network if it desires to switch to a new upstream provider. This is obviously an incredibly labor-intensive, lengthy, and disruptive procedure. To avoid this, many organizations address their internal structure from private RFC 1918 address space and NAT to public addresses at edge routers. Should they need to switch to a new provider, only the NAT translations ...

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How will virtualization technologies affect network service architectures?Mache Creeger

Jason Hoffman at Structure 2009

Joyent, the hosting company turned private cloud provider, has purchased Layerboom, a Vancouver-based startup, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition helps Joyent create an easier on-ramp to the cloud for customers of its appliances and software. Layerboom, a Bootup Labs incubated company, makes software and an appliance that enables a company to manage virtual machines running the Windows and Linux operating systems. Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman says the acquisition will help customers who still need to manage legacy hardware make the transition to Joyent’s ideal of running a platform as a service.

Joyent, which began as a hosting company in 2003 2004, is betting that enterprises don’t want to manage their own servers — even if they are virtual — and would rather build applications on top of language-specific or database-specific platforms. It offers an appliance that companies can use to create private internal clouds, but in 2009, it also bought a company called Reasonably Smart to allow its customers to internally offer the equivalent of a Google App Engine–like platform as a service for customers, on top of Joyent’s appliance or customers’ own hardware. The Layerboom deal sits beneath those two layers and will help customers more at the virtual machine level, because as Hoffman said, “You may always need to have a few Windows boxes running around.”

Hoffman says the deal came about because, as Layerboom was raising its Series B round of funding, investors inevitably came to Joyent for its input. Hoffman decided to take a look, and Joyent ended up buying the company. Hoffman says Joyent has purchased four startups (including Reasonably Smart) at a similar stage because it saw a chance to extend its vision. This vision is a compelling one as enterprises eye the cloud and need ways to maintain or transition from their legacy infrastructure.

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