Quiong,

Clarifying what is meant by "stateless" in different contexts is highly 
desirable.

The objective of the 4rd address mapping is
- no "per customer" state in provider nodes (BR, AFTR...)
- direct customer-customer paths made possible

The 'Lightweight 4over6' proposal has in my understanding a different 
objective: flexible port sets assignable to each individual customer.
It can therefore coexist with one or both "per-sustomer-stateless" solution(s) 
(with encapsulation and/or double-translation).

Hope it helps.

Regards,
RD


Le 2 août 2011 à 08:11, Qiong a écrit :

> Hi Lee,
> 
> Thank you very much for your interests on 'lightweight 4over6'.
> 
> In our consideration, lightweight AFTR is not doing port-range routing. In 
> this lightweight AFTR, it would firstly lookup a mapping table (recording 
> [IPv6 address, IPv4 address, Port set]) for a downstream IPv4 packet. Then 
> after IPv4 packet has been encapsulated into IPv6 packet, it will do IPv6 
> routing based on different IPv6 addresses. So, lightweight AFTR does not need 
> to distribute port-set info into FIB and there is no impact on existing 
> routing architecture between B4 and AFTR.
> 
> Actually, the basic idea behind 'lightweight 4over6' is to include addressing 
> sharing for 'public 4over6', and to enhance DS-Lite for better scalability. 
> It is a lightweight solution which only keeps customer-based state in AFTR 
> compared to DS-Lite. And there is also no IPv6 address format restriction and 
> no IPv6 routing impact on existing network infrastructure. We have 
> implemented a prototype in our commercial network and find it easy to deploy 
> in practice. 
> 
> With regard to so much stateful/stateless discussion, I think actually there 
> is no solution with totally stateless in the address sharing world. It is 
> only a matter of fact where to keep the states, either distributed in CPE or 
> centralized in the core CGN. Given the fact that most existing CPEs can 
> support NAT already,  our solution is to keep less states in the Core CGN, 
> while keeping the simplicity of IPv6 addressing and routing.
> 
> Sorry to make the discussion even more complicated. Your comments are more 
> than welcome.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Lee, Yiu <[email protected]> wrote:
> In this case,
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite-01.txt
> could be (modified here) controversial because it will turn AFTR a PRR.
> 
> On 8/1/11 7:07 AM, "Satoru Matsushima" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >If you imagine dynamic port ranges within stateless, it sounds like port
> >range aware routing. I think that it would be controversial.
> 
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