Re: [Softwires] WG last call on draft-ietf-softwire-stateless-4v6-motivation-01

[liu dapeng <[e-mail]>]

Hi Yiu,

2012/6/11, Lee, Yiu <[e-mail]>:
> Hi Med and Dapeng,
>
> In order to close the gap, I suggest a slight modification:
>
> "Current standardization effort that is meant to address this IPv4
>    service continuity issue focuses mainly on stateful mechanisms that
> sharing of global IPv4 addresses between
> Customers is based upon the deployment of NAT (Network Address
>    Translation) capabilities in the network.  Because of some caveats of
>    such stateful approaches the Service Provider community feels that a
>    companion effort is required to specify stateless IPv4 over IPv6
>    approaches.  Note that the stateless solution elaborated in this
> document
> focuses on the carrier-side stateless IPv4 over IPv6 solution. States may
> still exist in other equipments such as customer-premises equipment."

I am out of office this morning thence miss your mail. I suggest to
change "may" to "should" in the above sentence.

Regards,
Dapeng Liu


> Thanks,
> Yiu
>
>
> On 6/8/12 8:12 AM, "[e-mail]"
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>>Med: Thanks for the proposal. I shortened your proposal and updated the
>>text to:
>>
>>
>>   Current standardization effort that is meant to address this IPv4
>>   service continuity issue focuses mainly on stateful mechanisms that
>>   assume the sharing of any global IPv4 address that is left between
>>   several customers, based upon the deployment of NAT (Network Address
>>   Translation) capabilities in the network.  Because of some caveats of
>>   such stateful approaches the Service Provider community feels that a
>>   companion effort is required to specify stateless IPv4 over IPv6
>>   approaches.  Note stateless IPv4 over IPv6 solutions may be enabled
>>   in conjunction with a port-restricted NAT44 function located in the
>>   customer premises.
>>   This document provides elaboration on the need for carrier-side
>>   stateless IPv4 over IPv6 solution.
>


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Best Regards,
Dapeng Liu