[ipcdn] RE: Protocol Action: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Network Address Translators (NAT)' to Proposed Standard

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[e-mail]>]

jean Francois writes:
> 
> Folks,
> 
>    Does this MIB for NAT devices Internet-Draft have any implications on
> the ipcdn CableHome MIBs? do we need some time to do a final review of
> this ID? If you have any comments, please send them asap (it may be too
> late... but I want to make sure the group has seen this protocol action
> notice).
> 
It would indeed be REALLY late. Went through a 4 week IETF Last Call quite 
a while back. But if you find any fatal flaws, we certainly want to hear
about them.

Bert

> Jean-Francois.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IESG [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 3:20 PM
> To: IETF-Announce
> Cc: Internet Architecture Board; RFC Editor
> Subject: Protocol Action: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Network
> Address Translators (NAT)' to Proposed Standard 
> 
> 
> The IESG has approved the following document:
> 
> - 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Network Address 
> Translators (NAT)
> '
>    <draft-ietf-nat-natmib-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard
> 
> This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the 
> product of an
> IETF Working Group. 
> 
> The IESG contact person is Allison Mankin.
> 
> Technical Summary
>  
> This document defines a portion of the Management Information 
> Base (MIB)
> for 
> devices implementing Network Address Translator (NAT) 
> function. This MIB
> 
> module may be used for configuration of specific aspects of the NAT
> function (but in particular, not to configure NAT bindings).  Firewall
> configuration, in a NAT-firewall-combining device, is specifically
> outside the scope of this 
> document.
> 
> Working Group Summary
>  
> Although this document is an individual submission (developed largely
> after 
> closure of IETF's NAT working group, it was reviewed by the MIDCOM
> working group.  A good number of comments were received from MIDCOM
> participants.
>  
> Protocol Quality
>  
> This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Allison Mankin, Bert
> Wijnen, 
> and Juergen Schoenwaelder, of the MIB Doctors.
> 
> RFC Editor Notes
> 
> Section 3.  Terminology
> 
> OLD:
> 
> 
>    Definitions for majority of the terms used throughout the document
>    may be found in RFC 2663 [RFC2663]. Additional terms that further
>    classify NAPT implementations are defined in RFC 3489 [RFC3489].
>    Listed below are terms used in this document
> 
> NEW:
> 
>   
>    Definitions for majority of the terms used throughout the document
>    may be found in RFC 2663 [RFC2663]. Additional terms that further
>    classify NAPT implementations are defined in RFC 3489 [RFC3489].
>    Listed below are terms used in this document
> 
>    Address realm - An address realm is a realm of unique network
>    addresses that are routable within the realm. For example, an
>    enterprise address realm could be constituted of private IP
>    addresses in the ranges specified in RFC 1918 [RFC1918], which
>    are routable within the enterprise, but not across the Internet.
>    A public realm is constituted of globally unique network
>    addresses.
> 
> [And add RFC 1918 to the Informative References]
> 
> -----------
> 
> OLD:
> 
>    NAT Session - A NAT session is an association between a session
>    as seen in the private realm and a session as seen in the public
>    realm, by virtue of NAT translation. If a session in the private
>    realm were to be represented as (PrivateSrcAddr, PrivateDstAddr,
>    TransportProtocol, PrivateSrcPort, PrivateDstPort) and the
>    same session in the public realm were to be represented as
>    (PublicSrcAddr, PublicDstAddr, TransportProtocol, PublicSrcPort,
>    PublicDstPort), the NAT session will provide the translation
>    glue between the two session representations.
> 
> NEW:
> 
> 
>    NAT Session - A NAT session is an association between a session
>    as seen in the private realm and a session as seen in the public
>    realm, by virtue of NAT translation. If a session in the private
>    realm were to be represented as (PrivateSrcAddr, PrivateDstAddr,
>    TransportProtocol, PrivateSrcPort, PrivateDstPort) and the
>    same session in the public realm were to be represented as
>    (PublicSrcAddr, PublicDstAddr, TransportProtocol, PublicSrcPort,
>    PublicDstPort), the NAT session will provide the translation
>    glue between the two session representations. NAT sessions in
>    the document are restricted to sessions based on TCP and UDP
>    only . In the future, NAT sessions may be extended to be based
>    on other transport protocols such as SCTP, UDP-lite and DCCP.
> 
> 
> -----------
> Section 5.  Definitions 
> 
> OLD:
> natAddrBindEntry OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     NatAddrBindEntry
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "Each entry in this table holds information about
>              an active address BIND. These entries are lost
>              upon agent restart."
>     INDEX   { ifIndex, natAddrBindLocalAddrType, 
> natAddrBindLocalAddr }
>     ::= { natAddrBindTable 1 }
> 
> NEW:
> natAddrBindEntry OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     NatAddrBindEntry
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "Each entry in this table holds information about
>              an active address BIND. These entries are lost
>              upon agent restart.
> 
>              This row has indexing which may create variables with
>              more than 128 subidentifiers. Implementers of this table
>              must be careful not to create entries that would result
>              in OIDs which exceed the 128 subidentifier limit.
>              Otherwise, the information cannot be accessed using
>              SNMPv1, SNMPv2c or SNMPv3."
> 
>     INDEX   { ifIndex, natAddrBindLocalAddrType, 
> natAddrBindLocalAddr }
>     ::= { natAddrBindTable 1 }
> 
> -----
> 
> OLD:
> natAddrBindLocalAddr OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     InetAddress
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "This object represents the private-realm specific network
>              layer address, which maps to the public-realm address
>              represented by natAddrBindGlobalAddr.
> 
> 
>              The type of this address is determined by the value of
>              the natAddrBindLocalAddrType object.
> 
>              As this object is used in the index for the
>              natAddrBindTable, implementers of this table should be
>              careful not to create entries that would result in OIDs
>              with more than 128 subidentifiers; else the information
>              cannot be accessed using SNMPv1, SNMPv2c or SNMPv3."
> 
>     ::= { natAddrBindEntry 2 }
> 
> NEW:
> natAddrBindLocalAddr OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     InetAddress
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "This object represents the private-realm specific network
>              layer address, which maps to the public-realm address
>              represented by natAddrBindGlobalAddr.
> 
> 
>              The type of this address is determined by the value of
>              the natAddrBindLocalAddrType object."
> 
>             
>    ::= { natAddrBindEntry 2 }
> 
> ------
> 
> OLD:
> 
> natAddrPortBindEntry OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     NatAddrPortBindEntry
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "Each entry in the this table holds information
>              about a NAPT bind that is currently active.
>              These entries are lost upon agent restart."
>     INDEX   { ifIndex, natAddrPortBindLocalAddrType,
>               natAddrPortBindLocalAddr, natAddrPortBindLocalPort,
>               natAddrPortBindProtocol }
>     ::= { natAddrPortBindTable 1 }
> 
> NEW:
> 
> natAddrPortBindEntry OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     NatAddrPortBindEntry
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "Each entry in the this table holds information
>              about a NAPT bind that is currently active.
>              These entries are lost upon agent restart.
> 
>              This row has indexing which may create variables with
>              more than 128 subidentifiers. Implementers of this table
>              must be careful not to create entries which would result
>              in OIDs that exceed the 128 subidentifier limit. 
>              Otherwise, the information cannot be accessed using
>              SNMPv1, SNMPv2c or SNMPv3."
>     INDEX   { ifIndex, natAddrPortBindLocalAddrType,
>               natAddrPortBindLocalAddr, natAddrPortBindLocalPort,
>               natAddrPortBindProtocol }
>     ::= { natAddrPortBindTable 1 }
> 
> ------
> 
> OLD:
> natAddrPortBindLocalAddr OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     InetAddress
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "This object represents the private-realm specific network
>              layer address which, in conjunction with
>              natAddrPortBindLocalPort, maps to the public-realm
>              network layer address and transport id represented by
>              natAddrPortBindGlobalAddr and natAddrPortBindGlobalPort
>              respectively.
> 
> 
>              The type of this address is determined by the value of
>              the natAddrPortBindLocalAddrType object.
> 
> 
>              As this object is used in the index for the
>              natAddrPortBindTable, implementers of this table should
>              be careful not to create entries that would result in
>              OIDs with more than 128 subidentifiers; else the
>              information cannot be accessed using SNMPv1, SNMPv2c or
>              SNMPv3."
>     ::= { natAddrPortBindEntry 2 }
> 
> NEW:
> natAddrPortBindLocalAddr OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX     InetAddress
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS     current
>     DESCRIPTION
>             "This object represents the private-realm specific network
>              layer address which, in conjunction with
>              natAddrPortBindLocalPort, maps to the public-realm
>              network layer address and transport id represented by
>              natAddrPortBindGlobalAddr and natAddrPortBindGlobalPort
>              respectively.
> 
> 
>              The type of this address is determined by the value of
>              the natAddrPortBindLocalAddrType object."
>     ::= { natAddrPortBindEntry 2 }
> 
> -----
> 
> OLD:
> natMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
>      LAST-UPDATED "200404180000Z"
>      ORGANIZATION "Individuals"
> 
> NEW:
> natMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
>      LAST-UPDATED "200404180000Z"
>      ORGANIZATION "IETF Transport Area"
> 
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