If I recall correctly, the Interim meeting dicussed the rationality of
per-subsriber stateful solutions ASIDE FROM the stateless solutions,
rather than " 'per-subscriber mapping' could be one characteristic of
MAP solution"

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Satoru Matsushima
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Qiong,
>
> Thanks you to carefully express your thought. I understand that.
>
> First point, let me answer for the question, 'Is MAP stateless or stateful', 
> the answer is: "MAP is *not* stateful solution itself". It was discussed in 
> the interim meeting in Beijing about 'per-subscriber mapping' could be one 
> characteristic of MAP solution. It does not introduce 'per-flow NAT binding' 
> or 'per-subscriber state on demand' on network side. As MAP specification, 
> there is a case when ea-bits length indicates zero so that MAP needs explain 
> this case and clearly define specification that's what we did.
>
> Second, I don't have any intention to deprecate those who work hard for that 
> solutions.  I didn't figure out that MAP possibly cover existing solutions 
> untill you rise this point. Now I remember that 'multi-protocol socket v2.0', 
> talked from the chair, which has been deeply engraved in my mind. I believe 
> that it is right direction for the working group.
>
> I agree on that we need discussion. That would be there's another choice to 
> define in the case of ea-bits length indicates zero.
>
> Best regards,
> --satoru
>
>
> On 2012/06/25, at 0:13, Qiong wrote:
>
>> Hi Satoru,
>>
>> Every solution has its solution space with respective application scenarios 
>> as well as pros and cons.
>> The essence of stateless solution, which follows the stateless motivation 
>> approved by the WG, is to achieve efficient address mapping by algorithmic 
>> embedding part of IPv4 address+port set into IPv6 address/prefix, while the 
>> essence of stateful solution is to maintain the subscriber-based state 
>> on-demand. IPv4 address and IPv6 address is not coupled, and there is no 
>> requirement on IPv6 addressing format. It is twisty to mix them together in 
>> one document as in the current draft-ietf-softwire-map. It is not clear for 
>> vendors to implement and for operators to deploy, and will lose the features 
>> for both.
>>
>> I'm not saying I'm against the work of stateless solutions, but it is really 
>> not fair to just extend one solution arbitrarily to cover another one 
>> without the permission from the WG and the authors. In particular,  
>> lightweight 4over6 is a collaborative work of 15 co-authors for more than 
>> one and a half years, including operators from China Telecom, Tsinghua, 
>> Comcast, France telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Bouygues Telecom, etc., and  also 
>> the vendors from Huawei, Juniper and Cisco.
>>
>> Our WG or DT has never reached the consensus to have one unified document 
>> for both stateful and stateless sotluion. And the motivation draft has never 
>> been extended to include the stateful features as well. So unless we reach 
>> the consensus first in the WG, we can then move forward with this document.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Satoru Matsushima 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Qiong,
>>
>> I'm disagree with your opinion.
>>
>> 1. Recent changes in draft-ietf-softwire-map-00 has been discussed in the DT.
>> 2. MAP just covers so called '1:1 mode' with most granular mapping rule for 
>> CEs provisioning, which is as one of its characteristics.
>> 3. The motivation draft does not restrict that as you stated, just 
>> 'assumed', it's neither 'MUST' nor 'SHOULD'.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --satoru
>>
>>
>> On 2012/06/24, at 14:35, Qiong wrote:
>>
>> > 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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>>
>> --
>> ==============================================
>> 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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