Hi James,
I didn't read this before posting my previous message... Would
"Algorithmic NAT66" address your concern? Because I do think that is
the main way in which this is different form regular old NAPT44, or an
IPv6 equivalent.
What do you think?
Margaret
On Oct 29, 2010, at 7:24 PM, james woodyatt wrote:
margaret--
I went through my archives of the list. We've discussed the naming
confusion issue before, but I don't think a consensus emerged.
Here's what I proposed:
Begin forwarded message:
From: james woodyatt <[email protected]>
Date: April 1, 2009 08:56:07 PDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [nat66] The case for the name SAT66 to mean stateless
NAT66
On Apr 1, 2009, at 08:41 , Fred Baker wrote:
That said, I think Remi has made a good suggestion here. Calling
it Stateless Address Translation makes sense, I think.
I could accept either of the following as improvements to the
existing order:
+ Stateless IPv6-to-IPv6 Address Translation (SAT66)
+ IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (6NPT)
I prefer the latter term, but the former is fine too.
I'd prefer either of these over NAT66 on the grounds that I expect
it to be easier to teach people that this new and different thing
they've never heard of before still breaks some applications, than
to try to teach people that conventional NAT44 means dynamic per-
host state, NAT64 means dynamic per-host state, but NAT66 means no
dynamic state.
On Apr 1, 2009, at 08:49 , Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
"NAT" does not mean that it's stateful or stateless. It means it's
doing translation. Using a separate word for stateless IPv6-IPv6
NAT will just add to the confusion at this point.
Another reason I prefer IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (6NPT). It
still says translation, but it explicitly constrains the
translation to network prefixes only.
When the latest revision of I-D.mrw-nat66 appeared and the name had
not changed, I assumed that we were still using NAT66 to refer
specifically to the proposal in the draft we have, and that we do
not yet have a good way to refer to the sort of IPv6 network address/
port translation that Mr. Engel and Mr. Marquis have been so
vigorously advocating on the list recently.
--
james woodyatt <[email protected]>
member of technical staff, communications engineering
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