On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:02 AM, Christian Huitema wrote: >> ... the most workable approach for now requires applications to pass IP >> addresses to peers >> in referrals (perhaps with some additional information) and for those peers >> to make heuristic >> guesses about which addresses to try first. Granted that's not a very good >> solution, but it's >> way better than trying to prevent apps from making those decisions. > > Keith, it seems that you are describing ICE.
not specifically, no. I'm speaking in general terms here. given the considerable constraints associated with the current operating environment, different applications will make different tradeoffs. > Of course, ICE only really works for UDP based applications. So we may need > to run TCP or a new equivalent protocol on top of UDP. Of course, if we do > that, we can also get a solution that works through not only NAT, but also > basic stateful firewalls. > > ICE, STUN, TURN forever. Not exactly what we were shooting for in 1992. Oh > well. not what I'm shooting for now either. but neither do I want to prevent such things from working (for those apps that can use them) in the interim. Keith _______________________________________________ nat66 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nat66
