Technical Summary
This document defines common requirements for Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN)
Working Group Summary
Consensus is strong, except for a split between some WG members wanting
"SHOULD support bulk port allocation" (in order to reduce logging) and
other WG members who think no recommendation should be made. So,
the document merely describes the trade-offs in its Section 5.
An IPR declaration exists against the document,
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1648. The actual claims are
not available.
At IETF82, consensus of the working group was to continue with
publication of the document.
Document Quality
This is a requirements document, so there are not exactly
implementations of it. Service providers are interested in it, and
vendors are interested in supporting these requirements for that
reason.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Dan Wing (dwing@cisco.com), and the
responsible AD is Wesley Eddy (wes@mti-systems.com).
RFC Editor Note
Please change the REQ-7 requirement as indicated below:
OLD:
REQ-7: It is RECOMMENDED that a CGN have an "Endpoint-Independent
NEW:
REQ-7: It is RECOMMENDED that a CGN use an "Endpoint-Independent