Fwd: I-D Action:draft-van-beijnum-modified-nat-pt-00.txt

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

This is the modified NAT-PT draft that I mentioned this weekend.

Chairs: I would like the opportunity to present this draft in  
Vancouver, if possible.

If desired I can talk about alternatives for / changes to NAT-PT in  
general rather than this specific proposal.

Iljitsch


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> From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org
> Date: 12 november 2007 14:50:02 GMT+01:00
> To: i-d-announce@ietf.org
> Subject: I-D Action:draft-van-beijnum-modified-nat-pt-00.txt
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts  
> directories.

> 	Title           : Modified Network Address Translation - Protocol  
> Translation
> 	Author(s)       : I. van Beijnum
> 	Filename        : draft-van-beijnum-modified-nat-pt-00.txt
> 	Pages           : 9
> 	Date            : 2007-11-12

> A smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6 requires that either all hosts
> are upgraded to dual stack before the first hosts can become IPv6-
> only, or that there be some mechanism for IPv6-only hosts to talk to
> IPv4-only hosts.  Current levels of dual stack deployment suggest
> that expecting the former within a reasonable timeframe isn't
> realistic, based on current adoption of dual stack combined with the
> latest projections for the IPv4 depletion that point to a date early
> in the next decade.  And the IETF has recently deprecated the main
> mechanism that allows the latter: NAT-PT.
> This document proposes modifications to NAT-PT that address the
> reasons why the mechanism was deprecated in order to allow future
> deployment of the modified NAT-PT as an IPv4-to-IPv6 transition
> mechanism, giving operators the option to run their networks largely
> IPv6-only.

> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-van-beijnum-modified-nat-pt-00.txt