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by w7 1885 days ago
Nothing new needs to be proposed. Nothing is being replaced. The current state of things is that whatever your edge device is provides actual security with stateful firewalling and translation with NAT, already. It's simple to understand because most home router products and projects like pfsense make them look like inseparable things that perform the same function. Removal of NAT won't even require a UI change for consumers because all these port forwarding UIs add both a DNAT/PNAT rule and a firewall rule already. You can keep the exact same user interfaces and "port forward" terminology when removing NAT.