> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Simon Perreault
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:50 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: RFC6724/RFC3484bis: Destination selection not considering
> well-known NAT64 prefix
>
>  From the host's point of view, you don't know that IPv4 is not NATed as
> well. You don't even know if it is "native": it could be provided by DS-
> Lite for all you know.
>
>  From the operator's point of view, if you deploy a NAT64 in a dual-
> stack network, that probably means you *want* traffic to go over
> NAT64 rather than over IPv4. You probably want *less* native IPv4
> traffic in your network so that eventually you can make your network
> fully IPv6-only.

[WEG] We've been discussing this on and off in sunset4 as well, and I have 
started to come to the conclusion that it's unlikely that there will be a 
single correct answer in all cases, and so the better thing is to work toward 
tools that allow the ISP to give the host some guidance about which address 
family to choose in different situations, or at least give the host some of the 
missing information about when something is being NATted or otherwise 
translated upstream so that it can make its own decision.
While any guidance of this nature should be focused on giving the end host the 
best possible service regardless of the intended destination or protocol, it 
could take into consideration the costs of different translation models 
(stateful vs stateless) the absence or presence of a set of ALGs for certain 
applications, etc. It's still useful to have default recommendations, these 
would likely be ways to optimize certain scenarios based on specific use cases 
where it's better to make a different choice than what is recommended in this 
document.

Wes George

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