[Int-area] New I-D on 6a44 (Native IPv6 across NAT44's)

[Rémi Després <[e-mail]>]

Hello everybody,

We have submitted tools.ietf.org/html/draft-despres-intarea-6a44-00 and plan to present and discuss it in Prague.
It specifies a lightweight protocol to make Native IPv6 available behind NAT44 CPE's.

Its main difference from the previous 6a44 draft (addressed to Softwire but found out of scope there), is that 6a44 is now viewed and presented as an evolution from Teredo.  

Comments are most welcome. 

Regards,
RD


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Internet Engineering Task Force                          R. Despres, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                 RD-IPtech
Intended status: Standards Track                            B. Carpenter
Expires: September 8, 2011                             Univ. of Auckland
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                                                                   Cisco
                                                                S. Jiang
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                  Native IPv6 Behind NAT44 CPEs (6a44)
                     draft-despres-intarea-6a44-00

Abstract

   In customer sites having IPv4-only CPEs, Teredo provides a last
   resort IPv6 connectivity [RFC4380] [RFC5991] [RFC6081].  However,
   because it is designed to work without involvement of Internet
   service providers, it has significant limitations (connectivity
   between IPv6 native addresses and Teredo addresses is uncertain;
   connectivity between Teredo addresses fails for some combinations of
   NAT types). 6a44 is a complementary solution that, being base on ISP
   cooperation, avoids these limitations.  At the beginning of IPv6
   addresses, it replaces the Teredo well-known prefix by network
   specific prefixes assigned by local ISP's (an evolution similar to
   that from 6to4 to 6rd).  In hosts, 6a44 can be implemented either
   autonomously or as an extension of Teredo.  Except for IANA numbers
   that remain to be confirmed, the specification is intended to be
   complete enough for running codes to be independently written and the
   solution to be incrementally deployed.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Requirements Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   4.  Design Goals, Requirements, and Model of Operation . . . . . .  6
     4.1.  Hypotheses about NAT Behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     4.2.  Last Resort solution for Native IPv6 Connectivity  . . . .  6
     4.3.  Operational Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.4.  Model of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   5.  6a44 Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   6.  Specification of Clients and Relays  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     6.1.  Packet Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     6.2.  IPv6 Packet Encapsulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     6.3.  6a44 Bubbles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     6.4.  Maximum Transmission Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     6.5.  6a44 Client Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       6.5.1.  Tunnel Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       6.5.2.  Client Transmission  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
       6.5.3.  Client Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     6.6.  6a44 Relay Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       6.6.1.  Relay Reception in IPv6  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
       6.6.2.  Relay Reception in IPv4  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     6.7.  Implementation of Automatic Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
   8.  IANA considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   9.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
     10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
     10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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