Hi all, As we all know, once an individual draft is adopted as a WG draft, it is owned by the whole WG, rather than just the editors. Just as Remi said, the normal procedure to follow is to reach WG consensus _before_ posting a newly edited version.
>From draft-mdt-softwire-mapping-address-and-port-03 to draft-ietf-softwire-map-00, there are several changes between them. In particular, the newly introduced "1:1 mode", which decouples IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, has never been discussed openly in the WG mailing list, or even in the MAP design team either. Actually, this "1:1 mode" is against the stateless-4v6-motivation draft. The motivation draft has clearly defines the "Stateless 4/6 solution" as follows: Stateless 4/6 solution denotes a solution which does not require any per-user state (see Section 2.3 of [RFC1958]) to be maintained by any IP address sharing function in the Service Provider's network. This category of solutions assumes a dependency between an IPv6 prefix and IPv4 address. AFAIK what the WG has adopted MAP related draft is draft-mdt-softwire-mapping-address-and-port-03, NOT draft-ietf-softwire-map-00. And the stateless solution should “response to the solution motivation document” according to the Softwire charter. That means draft-ietf-softwire-map-00 IS NOT QUALIFIED to be a WG draft. We can all recall that our softwire WG has worked on stateless solutions for more than one and a half years, and we have achieved a lot of work which has been documented in charter, stateless motivation, 4rd-varients, MAP-03, etc. AFAIK all the authors have kept the basic "stateless" principle and the MAP design team is also working on it together to find a better algorithm, address format, etc. So it is really not appropriate to make such changes when MAP is adopted as a WG item in such a short time. >From this perspective, draft-ietf-softwire-map-00 can only be regarded as draft-XX-softwire-mapping-address-and-port-04. It is not even the output of MAP design team. Best wishes ============================================== Qiong Sun China Telecom Beijing Research Institude Open source code: lightweight 4over6: *http://sourceforge.net/projects/laft6/* PCP-natcoord:* http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcpportsetdemo/ * ===============================================
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