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Dual Stack Transition Mechanism (DSTM) Overview
draft-ietf-ngtrans-dstm-overview-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (ngtrans WG)
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Author Jim Bound
Last updated 2002-06-19
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

The initial deployment of IPv6 will require a tightly coupled use of IPv4 addresses to support the interoperation of IPv6 and IPv4 within an IPv6-only Network. Nodes will still need to communicate with IPv4 nodes that do not have a dual IP layer supporting both IPv4 and IPv6. The Dual Stack Transition Mechanism (DSTM) is based on the use of IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnels to carry IPv4 traffic within an IPv6-only network and provides a method to allocate a temporary IPv4 Address to IPv6/IPv4 nodes. DSTM is also a way to avoid the use of Network Address Translation for early adopter IPv6 deployment.

Authors

Jim Bound

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