Re: [BEHAVE] REQ 1 and REQ 7 of RFC5382 were supposed to be fixed years ago

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

Ivan,

Thanks for the explanation. I believe I have a good understanding of 
what you are proposing now.

There are several smaller technical issues with your reasoning which I 
won't address now because they are tangential. I want to focus on your 
suggestion that we should recommend port preservation. I see the 
following major issues:

- Adding new constraints on NAT implementations is not going to meet 
much success. I don't believe anyone is going to change their existing 
NAT code now in such a fundamental way as to implement port preservation 
just because the IETF asks for it in a new RFC.

- Port preservation is not applicable to CGN, where a subscriber often 
only has access to a limited range of external ports.

- There are ways to improve the scalability of EIM without killing it. 
I've been advocating for some time that NATs should be allowed to use 
EDM for protocols that they know will not break, with EIM as a default. 
For example, using EDM for TCP port 80 and UDP port 53 is easy, 
harmless, and has a big impact.

Simon