On 1 August 2011 18:21, Rémi Després <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Le 1 août 2011 à 17:44, Rajiv Asati (rajiva) a écrit :
>
> > We agree that different operators (whether in 3GPP/mobile space or
> Wireline (DSL/Cable/Fiber) space) would embrace stateful or stateless NAT
> based solution, per their short-term & long-term plans and associated
> constraints.
>
> Note that with stateless mappings + encapsulation, "stateless NAT" is an
> inappropriate wording, because there is no translation:
>

 All of the current Stateless46 variants TRANSLATE Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) + layer
3 (IPv4) info into Layer 3 (IPv6). Would be happy to use another term if...


> - This ensures e2e transparency,
> - At least for customers that are assigned exclusive IPv4 addresses, this
> e2e transparency is important (IP options, TOS, maybe others).
>

Perhaps for some, but for some the loss of IP Options vs the
efficiencies/gains in other areas are a price worth paying. (note: we have
already agreed that TOS transparency is achievable with either mode)

Cheers,
Woj.


>
> Cheers,
> RD
>
>
> >
> > Perhaps, it could be phrased a bit better in the draft, but that's not to
> say that stateless NAT/A+P becomes inapplicable to a particular space right
> away.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rajiv
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Cameron Byrne
> >> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:36 AM
> >> To: Rémi Després
> >> Cc: Softwires-wg; Paco Cortes; Wojciech Dec (wdec)
> >> Subject: Re: [Softwires] 3gpp related comments on
> draft-dec-stateless-4v6-02
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 1, 2011 8:24 AM, "Rémi Després" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Cameron,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the clarification.
> >>> More below.
> >>>
> >>> Le 1 août 2011 à 16:33, Cameron Byrne a écrit :
> >>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>> Some providers may indeed prefer to have only a stateless solution,
> >> especially in for DSL networks where ISP's provide CPE's, but there is
> no
> >> technical reason preventing both solutions to coexist
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> Many, if not most, 3gpp users get rfc1918 or bogon public addresses
> today.
> >> Giving my users public addresses using 4v6 stateless probably does not
> make
> >> sense for me or many similar mobile operators. ... there are not enough
> public
> >> address to give these users (growth through 2015) each 2000 ports.
> >>>
> >>> I don't se a significant disagreement here.
> >>>
> >>> If you have an overwhelming need for dynamic port sharing, it has to be
> >> faced, and you will go for CGN's. I don't argue against this.
> >>>
> >>> Some other operators may however have different constraints, and should
> be
> >> permitted to operate whatever simpler solution applies to their case.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Of course, agreed.
> >>
> >>> Note that one can expect that in 2015 users should work mostly, if not
> >> exclusively in IPv6, so that their need should be well well below 2000
> IPv4
> >> ports for each.
> >>>> This is just a 3gpp data point, since the draft chooses to include
> 3gpp as
> >> motivation.
> >>>
> >>> I appreciate that, and agree that the case for stateless A+P mapping is
> >> clearer for DSL and optical fibers than for 3GPP
> >>>
> >>
> >> The authors may want to note this point.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> RD
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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