Re: [Softwires] Confirming way forward with MAP-T and 4rd

2012-10-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 9/25/12 6:45 AM, Suresh Krishnan wrote: a) whether there is WG consensus towards continuing working on MAP-T and 4rd as experimental documents. b) whether there is WG consensus that MAP-E should be progressed to working group last call IESG review before MAP-T and 4rd.** Please state

Re: [Softwires] HubSpoke of MAP-E

2012-08-28 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/24/12 9:52 PM, Mark Townsley wrote: We cannot have a standards track protocol RFC coming out of softwires for every manner in which a technology might show up in an RFP. This simply does not scale. +1 we need a procurement guidance document then how to use all of those :) Cheers, Jan

Re: [Softwires] Call for confirming the selection of MAP-E as the basis for the proposed standard stateless solution

2012-08-08 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/8/12 12:02 AM, Suresh Krishnan wrote: Hi all, During the softwire WG meeting at IETF84 a series of questions* to determine the preferred solution in the meeting room indicated that the sense of the room was in favor of MAP-E as the basis for the proposed standard stateless solution.

Re: [Softwires] map-00: review on the mode 1:1

2012-07-27 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 7/27/12 2:39 PM, Lee, Yiu wrote: The EA bits encode the CE specific IPv4 address and port information. The EA bits can contain a full or part of an IPv4 prefix or address, and in the shared IPv4 address case contains a Port-Set Identifier (PSID). I prefer one solution vs. N

Re: [Softwires] Result from the consensus call on Map vs 4rd-U and official way forward

2012-04-26 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/26/12 11:50 AM, Mark Townsley wrote: Perhaps we would have been better off with the coin toss. +1 bingo. Cheers, Jan P.S: I'll not waste more bits on this topic as it's apparently a waste of bandwidth :) P.P.S: Should we deprecate RFC6346?

Re: [Softwires] MAP-ET vs 4rd-U

2012-04-10 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/10/12 10:01 AM, Fuyu (Eleven) wrote: Hi Jan, ISPs can't deploy MAP-E/T and use the two mechanism to transmit IPv4 traffic in their network at the same time. So I aggree with Gang that MAP-E and MAP-T should be treated as separate solutions. Dear Fuyu. Please read my message again and

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rdŠ 4rd-U as transparent as MAP-E

2012-04-09 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/9/12 8:17 AM, Sheng Jiang wrote: We would like to see both solution published. So that, operators can choose according to their own networks and preference. Disagree. This would hypothetically be nice for operators to have a choice, but vendors (looks like) will not implement two

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rdŠ 4rd-U as transparent as MAP-E

2012-04-09 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/9/12 9:24 AM, Maoke wrote: hi Yiu and others, 1. both published does surely conflict with the design goal of 4rd-U itself: unification of multiple standards. politically speaking, the 4rd-u authors' positition is now quite confusing. 2. operators surely need to choose IPv6

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rdŠ 4rd-U as transparent as MAP-E

2012-04-09 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/9/12 11:37 AM, Liubing (Leo) wrote: On 4/9/12 8:17 AM, Sheng Jiang wrote: ... Operators have their own brains. They may listen to vendors, but they do think by themselves and make decisions by themselves. Vendors would implement whatever the operators order. ... +1 I believe most of the

Re: [Softwires] Relative support for MAP vs. 4rd-U

2012-04-04 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/4/12 3:22 AM, Tom Taylor wrote: I have been advised privately by a couple of people that I erred in my description of relative support for MAP vs. 4rd-U at the meeting. Support for MAP was predominant, but not to the point of rough consensus. I was startled at the meeting by how much

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rd…

2012-04-03 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/3/12 3:53 AM, Satoru Matsushima wrote: FYI, choosing MAP doesn't mean that committing to a 'single'. But choosing 4rd-u means that committing to a 'single'. There're just transport variants, which are encapsulation, translation and new one we've never seen before. Proponents of the new one

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rd… More MAP-T experiment needed

2012-04-03 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
Dear Softwires WG chairs. For how long will you leave this useless cockfight go on instead of steering the working group into a direction, that may enable us to decide on something and chose the direction? We are running in circles here and just amplificating the noise, coming from certain

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rd…

2012-04-02 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/2/12 12:33 PM, Ole Trøan wrote: the status quo; with no path forward just means that we'll effectively kill A+P. I would certainly not recommend my product managers to implement either of this given the risk. is there consensus to abandon these efforts (which is basically what we do by

Re: [Softwires] Have the WG drop other stateless solutions already?

2012-04-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 4/1/12 3:24 AM, Fuyu (Eleven) wrote: Agree. I think we shouldn't drop other stateless solutions as: draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite-05 draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 They are all belong to stateless scope and with the same network architecture of IPv4 traffic across IPv6 access

Re: [Softwires] Path to move forward with 4rd…

2012-03-22 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 3/20/12 12:38 AM, Alain Durand wrote: Q1: Without pre-supposing which one will be selected, do you agree to publish 1 of the 3 proposals on the Standard Track and publish the other(s) as Informational if still asked to? If the answer is NO, then the process stops and we will publish

Re: [Softwires] Fw: I-D Action: draft-mawatari-softwire-464xlat-00.txt

2011-10-16 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 10/16/11 10:53 AM, Masanobu Kawashima wrote: Dear all, I have submitted a draft regarding 464XLAT. Dear Masanobu-san, Another flavor of CGN? Is this really needed? Cheers, Jan ___ Softwires mailing list Softwires@ietf.org

Re: [Softwires] draft-murakami-softwire-4v6-translation

2011-08-19 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/19/11 4:17 AM, Satoru Matsushima wrote: This way no address translation is needed, just ports needs to be redirected to right ones. It seems to me that no modification for any system call, correct? AFAIK, Nejc insists some system call modification, bind(), etc., Yes, if CPE is doing

Re: [Softwires] draft-murakami-softwire-4v6-translation

2011-08-18 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/18/11 3:59 PM, GangChen wrote: A+P is the same case if I understand correctly. NAT44 is one of three fundamental functions in A+P architecture. Otherwise, it can’t connect to legacy end-hosts. Usually yes, but not necessary. PAT could also do the work, if you connect behind CPE a host

Re: [Softwires] draft-operators-softwire-stateless-4v6-motivation

2011-08-16 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/16/11 5:03 PM, mohamed.boucad...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: 2) An alternative structure has been proposed off-line by A. Durand: discuss dynamic vs. static and stateful vs. dynamic. The analysis would elaborate the pros and cons of each solution (static stateless, static stateful, dynamic

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 7/29/11 11:41 AM, Rémi Després wrote: Dear all, Dave rightly expresses in the Softwire meeting the need to separate/clarify discussion about: - Stateless vs stateful – Static vs dynamic port sets Does this belong to softwires anymore? New WG maybe? Cheers, Jan Zorz

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 7/30/11 3:38 PM, Satoru Matsushima wrote: On 2011/07/30, at 8:26, Peng Wu wrote: a) Stateful+Dynamic port sets: e.g. DS-Lite b) Stateful+Static port set: e.g. draft-cui-softwire-host-4over6-06 c) Stateless + Static port set: e.g. 4rd, 4via6 translation d) Stateless + Dynamic port set:

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/1/11 4:22 PM, Rémi Després wrote: Le 1 août 2011 à 15:36, Rajiv Asati (rajiva) a écrit : ... Interesting enough, the static port-set is one of the reasons why many find 4v6 being so useful. Indeed: operation simplicity, scalability, possible direct CE-CE paths. Very legitimate. Let

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/1/11 1:07 PM, Satoru Matsushima wrote: So my question is that how dynamic is dynamic, and how static is static. The analogy of dynamic routing is that dynamic for updating routing information for prefixes but forwarding plane is stateless. If you imagine dynamic port ranges within

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/1/11 5:04 PM, Qiong wrote: So, this is a problem about how to define appropriate port set for our customers, or to define maximum concurrent subscribers for a given IPv4 address pool. Otherwise, there would either be a waste of resource, or port exhaustion. Maybe we can even make some more

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 8/1/11 5:50 PM, Ole Troan wrote: Jan Zorz @ go6.si wrote, on 08/01/2011 10:36 AM: Well, is short words, whatever number of ports you assign in port-set/range, end user can exhaust them. The fact that most ISPs have been successfully operating with 65536 ports per subscriber demonstrates

Re: [Softwires] DS-Lite mode enforcement to CPE routers

2011-03-02 Thread Jan Zorz @ go6.si
On 3/1/11 8:58 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote: If the chosen approach is DS-Lite, the ISP needs at some point in time start to provision customers in a way to make sure they'll use DS-Lite for IPv4 connectivity to conserve IPv4 addresses in a plannable manner. plannable manner means specifically that