[art] Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc6146-bis-10 telechat Artart review

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 09 July 2026 17:01 UTC

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>
> A you know that figure is inherited from RFC6146, which is meant to provide a "simple example".
> Jordi did actually proposed a revised version that I found confusing. I asked him to revert the change and leave 6146.

My impression is that the DNS and NAT talk to both hosts on both networks 
so the figure would look something like this:


              +----------------+                   +---------------+
              |  IPv6 network  |                   |    IPv4       |
              |                |  +-------------+  |  network      |
              |            |---+--| Name server |--+--|            |
              |            |   |  | with DNS64  |  |  |  +----+    |
              |  +----+    |   |  +-------------+  |  |--| H2 |    |
              |  | H1 |----|   |                   |  |  +----+    |
              |  +----+    |   |      +-------+    |  |  192.0.2.1 |
              |2001:db8::1 |---+------| NAT64 |----+--|            |
              |                |      +-------+    |               |
              |                |                   |               |
              +----------------+                   +---------------+


>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : John Levine via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org>
>> Envoyé : jeudi 9 juillet 2026 00:04
>> À : art@ietf.org
>> Cc : draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc6146-bis.all@ietf.org; last-
>> call@ietf.org; v6ops@ietf.org
>> Objet : draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc6146-bis-10 telechat Artart review
>>
>>
>> Document: draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc6146-bis
>> Title: Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation
>> from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers Reviewer: John Levine Review
>> result: Ready with Issues
>>
>> ARTART last call review of draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc6146-bis
>>
>> Reviewer: John Levine
>>
>> Overall: Still ready with Issues
>>
>> In the previous review I called out two issues, the confusing
>> Figure one, and the lack of DNSSEC concerns in the security
>> section.  The second issue is fixed with a short addition, the
>> first unfortunately is not.
>>
>> While the authors removed a few line segments from Figure 1, it
>> doesn't help since all of the same issues remain. Rather than
>> trying to tweak it, the authors could start over on a piece of
>> paper with a sketch of the actual topology, then transcribe it
>> preferably into SVG or if need be ASCII art.
>>
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