Hi Francis,

Please see inline.

Cheers,
Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Envoyé : mardi 13 mars 2012 17:56
> À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed OLNC/NAD/TIP
> Cc : [email protected]; Softwires WG; 
> draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite
> Objet : Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. 
> draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite 
> 
>  In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
> >        (*) Question 1: It is not clear in text if there is 
> a second NAT
> >        in the AFTR or not.  Could you please confirm/infirm 
> a second NAT
> >        is present?
> 
> => there is one but:
>  - it translates only port numbers following an algorithm

Med: Ok, thanks. But this is not clear in the -02 of draft-penno-*.

> 
>  - the NAT is not strictly required: one can imagine to assign
>    directly to a CPE its port range as it is visible from the Internet

Med: Agree.

>    (note: 1- it should be not what we want as it makes CPEs trivial
>     to track, 2- it doesn't remove the mandatory check on source ports
>     in the from CPE to the Internet way)

Med: I failed to get your first point. Could you please clarify? Thanks.

>   
> >        (*) Question 2: If yes, is there any reason why you want to
> >        maintain that second NAT?
> 
> => I can see at least 2 reasons:
>  - make CPE simplers (only applications which need to know 
> what is a port
>   number seen from the Internet side have to enter into the second NAT
>   details, i.e., typically the PCP (/UPnP iGD/NAT-PMP/...) 
> server on the CPE)

Med: applications using referral need to know the external IP address. I failed 
to see why this is simpler compared to draft-cui-*.

> 
> >        (*) Question 3: If the public IP address assigned by 
> the AFTR is
> >        not known to the port-restricted CPE, some 
> applications may fail
> >        (referral).  How the CPE will make a distinction between the
> >        external IP address to be assigned in the WAN and 
> the one used in
> >        the AFTR?  If UPnP is used, the WAN IP address should not be
> >        returned.
> 
> => my read of the SD-NAT mechanism is the public IP address 
> is the same
> at each side of the SD-CGN.

Med: This is not clear in -02 of the draft-penno-*.

> 
> >     (2) Unlike draft-penno-*, draft-cui-* does not mandate 
> any proffered
> >     provisioning means for port ranges; a list of alternatives is
> >     provided in draft-cui-* without any preference (this is 
> deployment-
> >     specific):
> 
> => but the ICMP-based solution is deeply broken so is it a real
> advantage?
> 
> >        (*) Question 4: Given this list, is there really a 
> need for the
> >        proposed ICMP-based solution?
> 
> => see previous item
> 
> >        (*) Question 5: draft-penno-* says: "A stateless 
> DS-Lite CPE MUST
> >        implement the DHCPv4 client relay option defined in 
> [I-D.ietf-dhc-
> >        dhcpv4-over-ipv6] to learn is external IPv4 address.".
> >  
> >           Question 5-1: Why "MUST"?  IMHO, this is 
> deployment-specific.
> 
> => no such specific:
>  - it makes the reasonable assumption than IPv4 addresses are assigned
>   using DHCPv4

Med: It is not "reasonable" when you don't have a DHCPv4 server but use PCP for 
instance. 


> 
> >        (*) Question 6: Is there any particular reason 
> draft-penno-* does
> >        not mention draft-donley-behave-deterministic-cgn?
> 
> => too many drafts...?

Med: I think it is fair to cite draft-donley-*.


 More seriously I have more concerns about
> too simple algorithms deployed in the SD-CGN, for instance the:
>  [1024...xxx] <-> [N...<N-1024+xxx] where p' = p + N - 1024
> is good for tests or demos but makes CPEs too easy to trace,
> I prefer what 
> draft-tsou-softwire-port-set-algorithms-analysis calls GMA
> (still trivial to implement and to use but harder to trace).

Med: We don't have the constraint of MAP so I would not exclude pseudo-random 
port set algos (see 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tsou-softwire-port-set-algorithms-analysis-01#section-3.3)
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