BEHAVE Working Group                                             B. Zhou
Internet-Draft                                                   H. Deng
Intended status: Informational                              China Mobile
Expires: April 22, 2010                                 October 19, 2009


    Requirements for Referral in Mobile Network, input to GROBJ BoF
                       draft-bo-behave-ref-req-00

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Abstract

   This document lays out the requirements that need to be met by the
   potential referral modifications for the mobile network.


Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
     1.1.  Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Requirements of referral design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     2.1.  R1 Standard referral format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     2.2.  R2 Guarantee of NAT traversal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   5.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8


































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.  Introduction

   Mobile operators are using referrals in their network to make
   entities reachable straightforward.  However, this simple approach is
   failed by deployment of firewall and translator (like NAT) in the
   network, in which causes the translation function happened during the
   communication.  This document is intended to discuss about the
   requirements that need to be met by the potential referral
   modifications in the mobile network.

1.1.  Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL","SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].




































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.  Requirements of referral design

2.1.  R1 Standard referral format

   The referral format need to be standardised.  All kinds of
   applications can understand the meaning of referral informed.

2.2.  R2 Guarantee of NAT traversal

   The referral (entity A) need to inform entity B how to reach entity C
   with NAT traversal, if there is a NAT between B and C. This can
   reduce the cost of NAT ALG.







































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.  Security Considerations

   This document describes the motivation and requirements for a host
   based translation solution and does not create any new security
   considerations.














































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.  IANA Considerations

   This document does not require any IANA actions.
















































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.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.















































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Authors' Addresses

   Bo Zhou
   China Mobile
   Unit2, 28 Xuanwumenxi Ave,Xuanwu District
   Beijing 100053
   China

   Email: zhouboyj@gmail.com


   Hui Deng
   China Mobile
   Unit2, 28 Xuanwumenxi Ave,Xuanwu District
   Beijing 100053
   China

   Email: denghui02@gmail.com

































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