Hi Behcet,

Sorry for my late response.

I think it should be a same situation as DS-Lite. Since the network which CE is 
facing is only IPv6, the network can not distribute IPv4 DNS information. 
Hence, CE should have a DNS proxy.

Thanks,
Tetsuya Murakami

On 2011/09/14, at 12:03, Behcet Sarikaya wrote:

> Hi Tetsuya,
>   I was wondering about DNS Proxy mentioned in Section 5.5 of RFC 6333.
> Do you also need it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Behcet
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Brian,
>> 
>>>> The problem with static allocation is that it cannot adapt quickly to 
>> subscriber demand.
>>> 
>>> Exactly; so it cannot optimise the number of ports in use.
>>> 
>>> What strikes me in this conversation is that all these solutions are a
>>> tremendous amount of work to deal with legacy equipment, and I have
>>> to wonder whether that is economically rational. That is for the market
>>> to decide, but I don't see that the IETF is obliged to solve each
>>> possible case. In other words I'm not sure where to find the 
>> requirements
>>> analysis that this new burst of activity is based on.
>> 
>> my assumption is that this is done on a CPE, as a part of the existing NAT 
>> function.
>> legacy applications exists behind the NAT.
>> 
>> there are multiple implementations of the encapsulation scheme already.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Ole
>> 
>>>> Dear Brian,
>>>> Thank you and in line...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Tina TSOU
>>>> http://tinatsou.weebly.com/contact.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 3:21 PM
>>>> To: Tina TSOU
>>>> Cc: Rémi Després; [email protected]; 
>> [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [Softwires] draft-murakami-softwire-4v6-translation
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Tina,
>>>> 
>>>> On 2011-08-21 14:08, Tina TSOU wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> If an average IPv4 user is consuming 200 ports (or whatever
>>>>> value you prefer to assume) with their favourite p2p app, that
>>>>> is what sets the number of IPv4 users per shared address. It's
>>>>> the number of simultaneous ports, not the amount of traffic,
>>>>> that counts.
>>>>> [Tina:
>>>>> These drafts attempt to solve this issue.
>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tsou-pcp-natcoord/
>>>> 
>>>> This doesn't create new ports; it just helps to allocate
>>>> them more rationally.
>>>> [Tina: When I see your comments about consuming 200 ports, I thought 
>> about the motivation of NAT-COORD is to solve the issue of one iTunes, 
>> Google 
>> Map application consumes 200~300 ports at a time. I did not think about 
>> Stateful/Stateless at that time.
>>>> 
>>>> In the use cases you mentioned above, do you only mean static port 
>> allocation issue with stateless mechanisms? Or it can be either stateful or 
>> stateless? 
>>>> 
>>>> The stateless address sharing schemes (4rd and friends) allocate a port 
>> range to each subscriber statically. Static allocation is necessary for the 
>> mechanism to be stateless.
>>>> There are all the advantages of a stateless mechanism (see the 
>> motivation draft for a list of these advantages).
>>>> 
>>>> The problem with static allocation is that it cannot adapt quickly to 
>> subscriber demand. If for example you have one subscriber that is consuming 
>> a 
>> lot of ports, you cannot assign more ports to it. Once it's assigned, 
>> it's static and hard to change.
>>>> ]
>>>> 
>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhou-softwire-b4-nat/
>>>> 
>>>> If I understand this correctly, it avoids NAT444 (which is a
>>>> good thing, and would make
>>>> draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request unnecessary). But
>>>> again, it doesn't create new ports or new public IPv4 addresses,
>>>> which was my point.
>>>> 
>>>> 4rd and 4via6 share this property of course.
>>>> 
>>>>    Brian
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