Le 2012-03-15 à 11:40, Maoke a écrit :

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> 
> 2012/3/15 Rémi Després <[email protected]>
> 
> Le 2012-03-15 à 10:29, Maoke a écrit :
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>> 
>> 
>> 2012/3/15 Maoke <[email protected]>
>> 
>> 
>> 2012/3/15 Rémi Després <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Le 2012-03-15 à 10:02, Maoke a écrit :
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2012/3/15 Rémi Després <[email protected]>
>>> Maoke,
>>> 
>>> Let's try, once more, to understand each other.
>>> 
>>> If we assume that MAP-T CEs (and BRs) now MUST translate DCCP (which is 
>>> AFAIAC a positive result of our discussion):
>>> a) Such a CE can communicate with an IPv6-only host including in DCCP.
>>> b) The same would apply to UDP lite if MAP-T would also require UDP-lite 
>>> translation.
>>> c) If a MAP-T CE communicates via a NAT64 (which is based on RFC6145, i.e. 
>>> with DCCP optional), DCCP is broken if the NAT64 doesn't translate DCCP (as 
>>> permitted by RFC6145).
>>> d) If RFC6146 (NAT64) and/or RFC6145 would be modified to also impose DCCP 
>>> translation, nodes complying with modified versions and those complying 
>>> with previous versions wouldn't be guaranteed to interwork for DCCP.
>>> 
>>> If we don't agree on this, there is still something to be clarified between 
>>> us.
>>> 
>>> surely do not. RFC6146 clearly states:
>>>    The current specification only defines how stateful NAT64 translates
>>>    unicast packets carrying TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic. Multicast
>>>    packets and other protocols, including the Stream Control
>>>    Transmission Protocol (SCTP), the Datagram Congestion Control
>>>    Protocol (DCCP), and IPsec, are out of the scope of this
>>>    specification.
>> 
>> I said "If RFC614... would be modified to also impose DCCP translation" => I 
>> take the point that you are not interested in that, but I don't think there 
>> was a contradiction.
>> OK?
>> 
>> it is not yet modified. with the current statement of RFC6146, the current 
>> equipment doesn't support DCCP. if it is modified, the update may state 
>> mandatory imposement for DCCP. i don't see any problem here.
>> 
>> more clearly speaking: stateful NAT64, i think, only needs to be done once 
>> in a delivery, therefore either the DCCP is supported or it is not. there's 
>> no "interwork" between NAT64 who has been modified with the NAT64 who has 
>> not. incorrect? 
> 
> The full sentence was: "If RFC6146 (NAT64) and/or RFC6145 would be modified 
> to also impose DCCP translation, nodes complying with modified versions and 
> those complying with previous versions wouldn't be guaranteed to interwork 
> for DCCP." 
> 
> I assumed an RFC6145 complying node can talk to a NAT64, right or not?


Just referring to:

DS-RFC6145-host --(v4net) -- NAPT64 -- IPv4 Internet

Is this excluded?

RD


> 
> you mean the stateful NAT64-ed IPv4 host (let's call it A) having access to 
> an IPv4 host (let's call it B) behind a stateless RFC6145 translator, mapped 
> to IPv4-converted IPv6 address in the IPv6 domain. if so, it is not right 
> that RFC6145 complying node can talk to a NAT64. let's see the details:  
> 
> model: A ---(IPv4 network)--- NAT64 (stateful) ---(IPv6 cloud)--- RFC6145 
> translator --- B 
> 
> because A would be translated by NAT64 to an arbitrary IPv6 address, A', 
> which is not an IPv4-converted one either in MAP or in RFC6052, the RFC6145 
> translator cannot handle it statelessly for any end-to-end communication. the 
> box in front of B should be another NAT64, and as i said previously, no 
> problem in interwork. if one NAT64 supports DCCP, it adjusts the checksum; if 
> the other doesn't support, it drops DCCP. no case of asymmetrically processed 
> but end-to-end deliverable DCCP here. 
> 
> - maoke 
>  
> (A NAT64 talking to another NAT64 was part of what I wrote!!!)
> 
> RD
> 
> 
> 
>>  
>> on the other hand, i cannot understand how the CNP helps stateful checksum 
>> validity. may you please to clarify? 
>> 
>> maoke
>>  
>> 
>> RD
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> - maoke
>>>  
>>> If we agree, I have nothing else on this point.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> RD
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If, as you suggest, 
>>> 2012-03-15 02:04, Maoke:
>>> 
>>>> 2012/3/14 Rémi Després <[email protected]>
>>>> 
>>>> Le 2012-03-14 à 10:46, Maoke a écrit :
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2012/3/14 Rémi Després <[email protected]>
>>> ...
>>>>>   
>>>>> Changing DCCP support from optional to mandatory in RFC6145 isn't 
>>>>> backward compatible (an upgraded node isn't guaranteed to interwork with 
>>>>> a non upgraded node).
>>>>> 
>>>>> the CE/BR specified RFC6145-compliant might be a problem but MAP-T is 
>>>>> still in development. if we state to enforce DCCP mandatorily rather than 
>>>>> optional in MAP-T, a MAP-T-compliant CE/BR won't has the backward 
>>>>> compatible problem. to this extend, MAP-T is at the same kick-off line of 
>>>>> the 4rd-U. 
>>>> 
>>>> 1. I agree that, between CEs and BRs, there can be no problem for DCCP 
>>>> (provided the draft is completed to this effect). The comparison table was 
>>>> explicitly made with existing drafts, and intended to be updatable. 
>>>> 
>>>> 2. The MAP-T draft is also claimed to allow "communication between 
>>>> IPv4-only, as well as any IPv6 enabled end hosts, to native IPv6-only 
>>>> servers in the domain that are using IPv4-mapped IPv6 address". In this 
>>>> case, AFAIK, the backward compatibility problem exists  
>>>> Thought? 
>>>> 
>>>> surely it does not exist. that statement applies to the MAP-T-compliant 
>>>> equipments, when it is used as a IPv4-to-IPv6 single translator or as an 
>>>> native IPv6 router. same deployment of equipments should support 
>>>> double-translation, single-translation, and native IPv6 accesses 
>>>> simultanenously. that's one of the points of the MAP-T. 
>>>> 
>>>> - maoke
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> To be even more precise, H6 of the comparison table can be:
>>>>> "For ISPs that don't provide all CE nodes, and for shared IPv4 addresses, 
>>>>> DCCP and UDP-Lite are supported, as well as future protocols using the 
>>>>> TCP checksum algorithm and ports at the same place"
>>>>> 
>>>>> i actually think the original text is fine. "For .... shared IPv4 
>>>>> addresses" is not needed for 4rd-U, to my understanding, nor needed to 
>>>>> MAP-T.
>>>> 
>>>> Will see what to do, then, when changes to the MAP-T draft concerning DCCP 
>>>> are known. 
>>>> 
>>>> RD
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> maoke 
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does this cover the point?
>>>>> 
>>>>> RD
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ;-)
>>>>>> maoke 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> but this is not my point. my point is: there must be something we don't 
>>>>>>> know ("non omnia possumus omnes"). even we have gone through the RFCs, 
>>>>>>> there might be some other proprietary L4 protocols, or experimental 
>>>>>>> protocols. even they are minority, i don't think ignoring their 
>>>>>>> existance in our solution fits the spirit of the Internet. it might be 
>>>>>>> argued that NAT44 doesn't support such L4 protocols now, but an L4 
>>>>>>> protocol owner may makes his own NAT44, either attached to the CE or 
>>>>>>> separated. if 4rd-U respects such an effort, it should state "currently 
>>>>>>> blahblabla L4 protocols are supported". the similar statement applies 
>>>>>>> to the RFC6145 or MAP as well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> i somehow am hard to accept words like "far fetched theoretical 
>>>>>>> problem". 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If I had thought it might be so, I would have avoided the word.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> the L4-recalculate is a generic, architectural solution, surely needing 
>>>>>>> codes for every L4 protocol. but this generality in architecture makes 
>>>>>>> RFC6145 or MAP-T equipment be easily enhanced to support anything new 
>>>>>>> with the same logic. but for the 4rd-U BR, it looks to me we cannot 
>>>>>>> have the unified logic for all (even limited to existing and 
>>>>>>> well-known) L4 protocols. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> only my 2 cents. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> With amendments above, the point is AFAIK completely covered: everything 
>>>>>> is rigorously true, and worth noting.
>>>>>> Thanks for the useful reference to the RDP of RFC1151.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> RD 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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