On May 2, 2011, at 5:22 AM, Rémi Després wrote: > Fred. > > On March 11, 2011 Rémi Després wrote (about the draft -12 in which "datagram" > is used interchangeably with "packet"): >> ... >> 3.2 and remainder of the document. >> The word datagram seems to be used instead of packet: >> - RFC 2460 doesn't use the word datagram for IPv6, even in case of >> fragmentation >> - In any case, NPTv6 operates individually on packets without concern with >> reassembling fragments. > > As draft -14 has replaced all occurrences of "packet" by "datagram", there > must have been a misunderstanding. > > Since NPTv6 isn't concerned about reassembling transport-layer datagrams (a > significant advantage over NAPT66 whose advantages are on a different > ground), the word to be used throughout in the draft is "packet". > In my understanding, this needs to be fixed in a next version.
I'm not planning on a next version. I also am confused by your use of the term "datagram". A datagram is not a transport layer construct, it's a network layer construct. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/datagram We are absolutely discussing datagrams here. Every IP packet is a datagram. _______________________________________________ nat66 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nat66
