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Re: [nat66] Terminology

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Fri, 03 April 2009 14:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [nat66] Terminology
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RJ Atkinson wrote:
> Gentle People,
> 
>   At the 6AI BOF held at IETF last week, there seemed to be
> rough consensus on the definitions for these 2 terms:
> 
> IPv6 NAT:    Generic term for any sort of NAT/NAPT/SAT
>         for IPv6::IPv6 deployment
> 
> NAT66:        Precise, specific, term for the proposal
>         documented in draft-mrw-behave-nat66-*.txt

I think it's useful to be able to describe not just IPv6-to-IPv6 NAT,
but any kind of NAT between IPvx and IPvy.  Since there's already some
established use for NAT66 and some other examples of that pattern, I
suggest we use the pattern xyNAT for NATs between x and y.

(I further suggest that we _not_ author any specific proposals with
names of the form xyNAT.)

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