Analysis of Stateful 64 Translation
RFC 6889
|
| Document |
Type |
|
RFC - Informational
(April 2013; No errata)
|
|
Last updated |
|
2015-10-14
|
|
Replaces |
|
draft-penno-behave-64-analysis
|
|
Stream |
|
IETF
|
|
Formats |
|
plain text
pdf
html
bibtex
|
|
Reviews |
|
|
| Stream |
WG state
|
|
WG Document
|
|
Document shepherd |
|
No shepherd assigned
|
| IESG |
IESG state |
|
RFC 6889 (Informational)
|
|
Consensus Boilerplate |
|
Unknown
|
|
Telechat date |
|
|
|
Responsible AD |
|
Martin Stiemerling
|
|
IESG note |
|
Dan Wing (dwing@cisco.com) is the document shepherd.
|
|
Send notices to |
|
(None)
|
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Penno
Request for Comments: 6889 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Category: Informational T. Saxena
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems
M. Boucadair
France Telecom
S. Sivakumar
Cisco Systems
April 2013
Analysis of Stateful 64 Translation
Abstract
Due to specific problems, Network Address Translation - Protocol
Translation (NAT-PT) was deprecated by the IETF as a mechanism to
perform IPv6-IPv4 translation. Since then, new efforts have been
undertaken within IETF to standardize alternative mechanisms to
perform IPv6-IPv4 translation. This document analyzes to what extent
the new stateful translation mechanisms avoid the problems that
caused the IETF to deprecate NAT-PT.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6889.
Penno, et al. Informational [Page 1]
RFC 6889 Analysis of 64 Translation April 2013
Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
publication of this document. Please review these documents
carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of
the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
described in the Simplified BSD License.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Analysis of 64 Translation against Concerns of RFC 4966 . . . 4
2.1. Problems Impossible to Solve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Problems That Can Be Solved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. Problems Solved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1. Introduction
1.1. Definition
This document uses stateful 64 (or 64 for short) to refer to the
mechanisms defined in the following documents:
o IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm [RFC6145]
o Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6
Clients to IPv4 Servers [RFC6146]
o DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6
Clients to IPv4 Servers [RFC6147]
Penno, et al. Informational [Page 2]
RFC 6889 Analysis of 64 Translation April 2013
o IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators [RFC6052]
o Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation [RFC6144]
1.2. Context
Stateful 64 is widely seen as a major interconnection technique
designed to enable communications between IPv6-only and IPv4-only
networks. One of the building blocks of the stateful 64 is
decoupling the DNS functionality from the protocol translation
itself.
This approach is pragmatic in the sense that there is no dependency
on DNS implementation for the successful NAT handling. As long as
there is a function (e.g., DNS64 [RFC6147] or other means) that can
construct an IPv6-embedded IPv4 address with a pre-configured IPv6
Show full document text