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by iso1631 3 days ago
ipv6 predated widespread use of nat

NAT's RFC was 1994 - although port translation didn't come in until 1996. The same year that IPv6's RFC came in 1996.

Had ipv6 not been created until say 2010 I suspect it would have looked to be backwards compatible with the widespread use of NAT then.