On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Rémi Després <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2013-02-28  15:34, Qiong <[email protected]> :
>
> ...
> Currently, the title of this draft is still MAP only, as we have not found
> a good term to call MAP-E, MAP-T and 4rd-u. So we would like to get advice
> from the working group to address this problem.
>
>
> Thanks to Qiong for raising this question in a more general context than
> that of MAP-E issue # 18 (
> http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/softwire/trac/ticket/18)
>
> AFAIK, Alain's intention before he left was to move from MAP-E/MAP-T/4rd-U
> to 4rd-E/4rd-T/4rd-H (with H for Hybrid). IMHO, this does make sense
> because:
> - "IPv4 Residual Deployment" better reflects the solution scope than
> "Address and Port Mapping".
> - This nicely conveys that there is commonality with 6rd.
>
> The fact that "MAP" has been used for some time for both MAP-E and MAP-T
> can be considered an impediment, but:
> - Now is a good time for making a consistent choice for the future.
> - Editorial updates for this are essentially trivial.
> NB: The original acronym for MAP-E was 4rd (and that of MAP-T was 4via6).
>
> This is my 2-cents contribution on this naming issue (after so many
> contributions to build and improve the solution).
>
>
I support this. I had the same problem in my multicast draft.
I think that using a unifying name like 4rd would be helpful.

Behcet
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