Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-nat64-experience-04.txt

Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> Tue, 19 November 2013 20:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-nat64-experience-04.txt
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On Nov 14, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 14 Nov 2013, at 10:18, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:14:28AM +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
>>>>> That was about the NAT64 WKP appearing - or being added to - the 6724 policy table.  There is now a DHCPv6 option for that.
>>> 
>>> I believe that at least both Cisco and ISC are working on implementations.
>> 
>> That sounds like "the server side" - which is needed, but shouldn't take
>> a miracle to add.
>> 
>> More interesting to me would be "client side" :-)
> 
> Indeed.  And always the main problem/challenge with any new DHCPv6 option.

"Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis" [RFC7050 (previously draft-ietf-behave-nat64-discovery-heuristic)] does not rely on the DHCP option.  Folks say it works.  But there is a general dislike for heuristics, for lots of good reasons. 

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