Hi Maoke,

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On 27 June 2012 05:28, Maoke <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi dear authors,
>
> as the map-00 draft contains the normative 1:1 mode statement that is new
> in comparison to the previous versions, i'd like to ask some technical
> questions in order to clarify the understanding.
>
> Section 4. page 9:
>
> MAP can also be provisioned in 1:1 mode. In 1:1 mode the BR has a
> MAP domain per subscriber, and the CE is configured in hub and spoke
> mode, with only a DMR and no other mapping rules. This allows for a
> mode where the BR has one rule per subscriber and the provisioning of
> IPv4 address or prefix and port sets is independent of the End-User
> IPv6 prefix.
>
> Question #1: who is a "subscriber"? the definition is missing. and
> relatedly, what is the protocol for the subscription? the specification on
> the protocol is missing too.
>

Answer 1: Subscriber = MAP CE. We will clarify the term.

>
> Question #2: what is the relationship between 1:1 mode, encapsulation
> mode, translation mode, hub&spoke mode, mesh mode? are they independent to
> each other, exclusively or not, somehow orthogonal or not? the
> specification on the "mode" is missing.
>

Answer 2: mode = forwarding mode, also known as transport mode. There are
two of these, translation and encapsulation. No relation between the rest
of the things you mention.

>
> Question #3: what is the resource for deployment of a "MAP domain"? the
> MAP spec never define that. however, we kept understanding that the
> resource for a "MAP domain" includes:
>              - an IPv4 prefix (with prefix length 32 or less) shared by
> CEs in this domain
>              - an IPv6 prefix (with prefix length 64 or less) delegated to
> the CEs in this domain with a /64 (or shorter) per CE (as the basic model
> of prefix d
>              the newly introduced "1:1 mode" obviously abandons this
> understanding, then an explicit definition on the resource of a "MAP
> domain" is requested. this is the origin and essential starting point of
> the MAP deployment.
>

Answer 3: What do you mean by resource for deployment?? It has, and always
has been an IPv6 prefix and an IPv4 address. This is the same in *all* of
this solution space. The split in terms of how one arrives at the IPv4
address and port-range has always been variable in MAP.
Additional point: There is no newly introduced 1:1 mode, as the spec hasn't
changed. Folks who implemented according to the previous spec, whihc you
seem to indicate had no 1:1 mode see no difference. Disabling the 1:1 mode
would actually require a spec change.

>
> Section 5. page 10:
>
>   * Forwarding mode
>
> Question #4: this appears twice at the definition of BMR and DMR,
> respectively. though Wojieich and Remi has discussed that in another
> thread, i would like to confirm: is this mode a domain configuration
> parameter or a rule parameter?
>

Answer 4: Confirmed, intent is for it to be per domain.

>
> Question #5: does this "forwarding mode" is a enumerate type of {MAP-T,
> MAP-E, 1:1, hub&spoke, mesh} or else, e.g., {MAP-T, MAP-E} x {1:1, N:1} x
> {hub&spoke, mesh}, where the "x" is the operator for de Cartesian product
> of sets? (related to #2)
>

Answer 5: No need to enumerate, because there is no relation between these
(answered above)

>
> Section 7.1 page 19:
>
> In 1:1 mode, the MAP CE is provisioned with only a Default Mapping
> Rule, and the full IPv4 address/prefix and port range is provisioned
> using the DHCP option.
>
> Question #6: is the CE or the subscriber the receiver of the "full IPv4
> address/prefix and port range" (correction: port set) to be provisioned? or
> does it mean a CE is a subscriber itself in the 1:1 mode?
>

Woj>  MAP CE.

>
> Section 7.3 page 19:
>
> A MAP-E CE provisioned with only a Default Mapping Rule, as in the
> 1:1 case, and with no IPv4 address and port range configured by other
> means, MUST disable its NAT44 functionality.
>
> Question #7: this text is contradictory with Section 7.1. is the DHCP
> option a sort of "other means" or not, or there's something out of scope of
> this draft?
>

Woj> DHCP is a provisioning mechanism which MAP *can* use, but nothing in
the architecture prevents any other provisioning mechanisms to be used incl
dhcpv4, snmp, etc.

>
> Question #8: what is the consequence of disabling the NAT44 functionality
> on CE when a subscriber having a PSID of a share IPv4 address is running
> behind that CE as a 1:1 mode domain?
>

Woj>  That is not possible.  We can be clearer in saying that if the CPE
has no IPv4 address configured then NAT44 is to be disabled (kind of
obvious)

>
> before all of the above questions and further questions possibly to be
> generated during the discussion are fully clarified, i cannot help but
> gently show my disagreement on putting the current draft as working group
> result. i also hope the MAP spec authors kindly understand with so many
> uncertainty modifying MAP deployment draft to fit the MAP spec is a
> mission-impossible for the time being.
>

Woj> What is the basis of your gentle disagreement, and its timing now? The
merged of the drafts was discussed previously, and circulated on the design
team of which you are a apart of. It appears your comments relate to the
supposed controversial 1:1 non-normative text.

Regards,
Woj.

>
> thanks and regards,
> maoke
>
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