Re: draft-palet-v6ops-proto41-nat-03 as WG item

[Fred Templin <ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com>]

mariana.nikolova@philips.com wrote:

> >I'd like to suggest that a NAT that does the proper proto41 
> forwarding is unlike a NAT
> > in the traditional sense and perhaps in need of a new name.
> >My suggestion is:Network Organizational Translator (NOT)
>
>
> Fred, technically speaking NAT for forwarding packets with protocol 
> field 41 is the same as NAT for forwarding packets with protocol field 
> 6 (TCP) and 17 (UDP). Well, the entities in the NAT table are 
> different, e.g. for 41 it's
>  (source IP address, target IP address, IP protocol)


Perhaps it should be:

 (source IP address, target IP address, IP protocol, IPv6 flow_label) ?

> whereas for 6 and 17 it's
> (source IP address, source TCP/UDP port, target IP address, target 
> TCP/UDP port)
> but the principle of address translation is the same. The difference 
> in the entity comes from the fact that 41 forwarding happen on IP 
> layer  whereas the 6 and 17 forwarding happen on TCP/UDP layer, taking 
> into accoun the ports numbers as well.
>  
> Frankly speakning I do not see any reason to go for another name.


I won't push hard for another name. We already have enough
confusing TLAs runnining around for the forseeable future.

Thanks - Fred
ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com

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