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[BEHAVE] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6052 (5984)

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Subject: [BEHAVE] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6052 (5984)
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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC6052,
"IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5984

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Jordi Palet Martinez <jordi.palet@theipv6company.com>

Section: 3.3

Original Text
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Organizations deploying stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation SHOULD assign a Network-Specific Prefix to their IPv4/IPv6 translation service.

Corrected Text
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Organizations deploying stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation SHOULD assign a Network-Specific Prefix for the exclusive use of their IPv4/IPv6 translation service.

Notes
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This seems obvious but is not. The NSP must only be used for the translation service. If the NSP is used only, for example in an enterprise network, in the LANs, and the translator allows it, it may create conflicts, as the resulting IPv6 address (NSP+IPv4 address) may be the same as a host inside the LAN has been configured with (either manually, or with SLAAC, DHCPv6), etc.

It has been confirmed that at least one vendor already realized this and the implementation doesn't work if the prefix is used both for the translator service and one of the LANs, but there is no explicit documentation on that. So if configured, the box doesn't work, but doesn't report is an an "invalid" config.

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RFC6052 (draft-ietf-behave-address-format-10)
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Title               : IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators
Publication Date    : October 2010
Author(s)           : C. Bao, C. Huitema, M. Bagnulo, M. Boucadair, X. Li
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance
Area                : Transport
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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