RE: [NSIS] GIST over GIST-unaware NATs

Hi 

I agree with John on this!
It is important to provide (next steps) solutions on this and therefore 
it is good to have it as a WG document.

Best regards,
Georgios

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john.loughney@nokia.com [mailto:john.loughney@nokia.com] 
> Sent: donderdag 12 oktober 2006 5:15
> To: fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de; nsis@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [NSIS] GIST over GIST-unaware NATs
> 
> Actually, I think this should be added as a WG document.  
> 
> Comments?
> John 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ext Xiaoming Fu [mailto:fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de]
> >Sent: 11 October, 2006 22:49
> >To: nsis@ietf.org
> >Subject: [NSIS] GIST over GIST-unaware NATs
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >There were some IESG discussions on GIST over GIST-unaware NATs.  I 
> >read through draft-pashalidis-nsis-gist-legacynats-00
> >and found it makes a number of clarifications on this issue:
> >
> >- The presence of a GIST-unaware NAT can be detected by comparing 
> >headers of the GIST query-response procedure message in the two 
> >adjacent non-NAT GIST nodes.
> >
> >- Upon the detection of such a NAT (and affiliated rules), these two 
> >GIST nodes can then establish a UDP tunnel between them, and 
> >encapsulate the GIST messages (query-response-...) into the 
> tunnel, and 
> >the outgoing tunnel endpoints decapsulate the messages into 
> the desired 
> >format.
> >
> >- The draft also gives detailed description on GIST 
> signaling and data 
> >traffic processing in both the case where a NAT is located 
> close to the 
> >NI and the case where a NAT is close to the NR. The rationale looks 
> >fine to me. If there is an implementation demoing this, it would be 
> >even nicer.
> >
> >What do others think?
> >Xiaoming
> >
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