The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'IPFIX Information Elements for logging NAT Events' <draft-ietf-behave-ipfix-nat-logging-06.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2016-02-12. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Network operators require NAT devices to log events like creation and deletion of translations and information about the resources that the NAT device is managing. The logs are essential in many cases to identify an attacker or a host that was used to launch malicious attacks and for various other purposes of accounting. Since there is no standard way of logging this information, different NAT devices log the information using proprietary formats and hence it is difficult to expect a consistent behavior. The lack of a consistent way to log the data makes it difficult to write the collector applications that would receive this data and process it to present useful information. This document describes the formats for logging of NAT events. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-behave-ipfix-nat-logging/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-behave-ipfix-nat-logging/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
