Network working group                                             X. Xu
Internet Draft                                                   Huawei
Category: BCP                                              M. Boucadair
Expires: March 2011                                      France Telecom
                                                                 Y. Lee
                                                                Comcast
                                                                G. Chen
                                                           China Mobile
                                                     September 10, 2010

    Redundancy and Load Balancing Framework for Stateful Network Address
                             Translators (NAT)

                  draft-xu-behave-stateful-nat-standby-05


Abstract

   This document defines a framework for ensuring redundancy and/or
   load balancing for stateful Network Address Translators (NAT),
   including NAT44, NAT64 and NAT46.

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Table of Contents


   1. Introduction.................................................3
   2. Terminology..................................................3
   3. Reference Architecture.......................................5
   4. Redundancy Mechanisms........................................5
      4.1. Cold Standby Mode.......................................7
      4.2. Hot Standby Mode........................................9
   5. Load Balancing Mechanisms...................................10
      5.1. Framework..............................................10
      5.2. Load Balancing Considerations..........................11
   6. Election Protocol Considerations............................12
   7. State Synchronization Protocol Considerations...............13
   8. Security Considerations.....................................13
   9. IANA Considerations.........................................14
   10. Acknowledgments............................................14
   11. References.................................................14
      11.1. Normative References..................................14
      11.2. Informative References................................14
   Authors' Addresses.............................................15









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1. Introduction

   Network Address Translation (NAT) has been used as an efficient way
   to share the same IPv4 address among several hosts. Recently, due to
   IPv4 address shortage, several proposals have been elaborated to
   rely on Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) (e.g., [NAT444], [DS-Lite] and
   [NAT64]). In such models, CGN function (which MAY be embedded in a
   router or be deployed in standalone devices) is deployed within
   large-scale networks, such as ISP networks or enterprise ones, where
   a large number of customers are located. These customers within a
   network which is served by a single CGN device MAY experience
   service degradation due to the presence of the single point of
   failure. Therefore, redundancy and/or load-balancing capabilities of
   the CGN devices are strongly desired in order to deliver highly
   available services to customers. Failure detection and repair time
   MUST be therefore shortened.

   This document describes a framework of redundancy and/or load
   balancing for stateful NAT including: NAT44 including DS-Lite, NAT64
   and NAT46. The main purpose of this memo is analyzing means to
   ensure high availability and load balancing in environments where
   carrier grade NAT44, NAT64 and NAT46 are deployed. Some engineering
   recommendations are provided for the selection of the IPv6 prefix to
   build IPv4-Embedded IPv6 addresses [Format] and the routing
   configuration. Except dealing with the exceptional failures (e.g.,
   power outage, OS crash-down or link failure, etc.), the redundancy
   mechanism described in this document can also be used for planned
   maintenance operations (i.e., graceful shutdown of the Primary NAT
   due to maintenance needs).

   Unless otherwise mentioned, NAT and CGN terms throughout this
   document, pertain to stateful NAT and stateful CGN. Stateless NAT is
   out of the scope of this memo.

2. Terminology

   This memo makes use of the terms defined in [RFC2663]. Below are
   provided terms specific to this document:

        CGN (Carrier Grade NAT): a NAT device placed within a large-
        scale network (e.g., ISP network, enterprise network, or campus
        network). These devices may be placed at the boundary between
        the large-scale private network and the public Internet,
        between a private network and a large-scale public network or
        between two heterogeneous IP realms (i.e., IPv4 and IPv6).



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        Prefix64: an IPv6 prefix used for synthesizing IPv6 addresses
        representing the external IPv4 hosts [Format].

        CGN internal address realm (internal realm for short): a realm
        internal to the CGN. For NAT44, the internal realm refers to
        the private networks. For NAT64, the internal realm means IPv6
        network or IPv6 Internet. For NAT46, the internal realm refers
        to IPv4 network or IPv4 Internet. For DS-Lite, the internal
        address realm is assumed to be private IPv4 addresses even if
        the transport mode used to convey exchanged traffic is IPv6. A
        DS-Lite CGN device (a.k.a., Address Family Transition Router
        (AFTR)) is a special NAT44 function which uses the IPv6 address
        as a means to de-multiplex users sharing the same IPv4 address
        [DS-Lite]. Furthermore, the hosts located in the internal realm
        are called internal hosts, and the addresses used in the
        internal realm are called internal addresses.

        CGN external address realm (external realm for short): a realm
        external to the CGN. For NAT44, the external realm refers to
        the IPv4 Internet. For NAT64, the external realm means the IPv4
        Internet or IPv4 network. For NAT46, the external realm refers
        to the IPv6 Internet or IPv6 network. Furthermore, the hosts
        located in the external realm are called external hosts, and
        the addresses used in the external realm are called external
        addresses.

        Internal address pool: an address pool used for assigning
        internal addresses to represent the external hosts in the
        internal realm. This address pool is specific to NAT46 and
        NAT64. For NAT46, the CGN will allocate one internal address
        (which is an IPv4 address) from the pool to an external IPv6
        host and map the external IPv6 host's IPv6 address to this IPv4
        address. For NAT64, the CGN internal address pool is the
        Prefix64 [Format]. This Prefix64 is used for synthesizing
        internal IPv6 addresses to represent external IPv4 hosts in the
        internal realm.

        External address pool: an address pool used by the CGN for
        assigning external addresses to the internal hosts. For NAT44
        and NAT64, the external address pool contains a set of public
        IPv4 addresses. For NAT46, the external IPv6 address pool is
        the Prefix64. The Prefix64 is used by the CGN for synthesizing
        the external IPv6 addresses to represent internal IPv4 hosts in
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        CPE (Customer Premises Equipment): a device which is used to
        interconnect the customer premise with the service provider's
        network.

3. Reference Architecture

   In a typical operational scenario, as illustrated in Figure 1, two
   NAT devices are deployed for redundancy and/or load balancing. This
   is the reference architecture for the mechanisms we describe in this
   memo. Note that these mechanisms are also suitable in which more
   than two NAT devices are used.

        +-------------------------+     +-----------------------+
        |                         |     |                       |
        |                       +-+-----+-+                     |
        |                       |  NAT-A  |                     |
   +----+-------------+         +-+-----+-+    +-------------+  |
   |   Internal Host  |           |     |      |External Host|  |
   +----+-------------+           |     |      +-------------+  |
        |                       +-+-----+-+                     |
        |                       |  NAT-B  |                     |
        |    Internal realm     +-+-----+-+    External realm   |
        |                         |     |                       |
        +-------------------------+     +-----------------------+

              Figure 1. General Scenario of Dual NAT Routers

   The redundancy and load-balancing mechanisms for NAT44, NAT46 and
   NAT64 are almost identical. In all cases, the NAT device or the
   immediate router of the NAT device announces the reachability of the
   NAT device to the external realm. The slight difference is the NAT
   reachability information. For example, NAT64 announces an IPv6 route
   for the Prefix64; NAT44 announces an IPv4 default route; DS-Lite
   AFTR announces an IPv6 route pointing to itself; and NAT46 announces
   a route for its internal address pool. This difference does not
   affect the general redundancy and load-balancing mechanisms, so the
   mechanisms described in this memo can be applied to NAT44, NAT64 and
   NAT46 devices

4. Redundancy Mechanisms

   The fundamental principle of NAT redundancy is to make two or more
   NAT devices function as a redundancy group, and select one as the
   Primary NAT and the other(s) as the Backup NAT through a dedicated
   election procedure (see Section 6) or manual configuration. In the
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   realm and another host in the external realm is handled by the
   Primary NAT. Once the Primary NAT is out of service, the Backup NAT
   with the highest priority (if several Backup NAT devices are
   deployed) takes over and provides the NAT services to the internal
   hosts. This Backup NAT is then identified as new Primary NAT. Once
   the former Primary NAT became operational, it could either preempt
   the role of Primary NAT or stay as a candidate in the redundancy
   group. This is part of administrative policies and out of scope of
   this memo.

   In order to implement the aforementioned procedure, means to detect
   and to notify the failure of the Primary NAT to the redundancy group
   SHOULD be activated.

   To ensure a coherent behavior when NAT device fails, this document
   assumes that both Primary and Backup NAT devices are managed by the
   same administrative domain. Thus, consistent configuration policies
   SHOULD be enforced in all devices. Note that the election process
   MUST be deterministic and does not lead to ambiguous situation where
   two or more NAT devices become Primary NAT. Moreover, the failover
   SHOULD be quick to ensure service continuity and keep end-users from
   perceiving service unavailability.

   Three redundancy modes are described hereafter: the cold standby,
   the hot standby and the partial hot standby modes:

        The cold standby mode is simple. The NAT states are not
        replicated from the Primary NAT to the Backup NAT. When the
        Primary NAT fails, all the existing established sessions will
        be flushed out. The internal hosts are required to re-establish
        sessions to the external hosts;

        The hot standby mode keeps established sessions while failover
        happens. NAT states are replicated from the Primary NAT to the
        Backup NAT. When the Primary NAT fails, the Backup NAT will
        take over all the existing established sessions. The internal
        hosts are not required to re-establish sessions to the external
        hosts.

        The partial hot standby mode is a flavor of the hot standby
        mode described above. It is used to avoid replicating NAT
        states of trivial sessions (e.g., short lifetime sessions)
        while achieving hot standby for significant sessions (e.g.,
        critical protocols or applications, long lifetime sessions
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        SHOULD be explicitly configured on the NAT devices of a
        redundancy group.

   The following sub-sections provide more information about the cold
   standby and the hot standby modes.

4.1. Cold Standby Mode

4.1.1 Internal Realm

   The internal addresses used to represent the external hosts in the
   internal realm SHOULD be retained after the NAT failover. The
   following assesses how this requirement is met in each NAT flavor:

        For NAT44 and DS-Lite, the external hosts' internal addresses
        (i.e., the addresses used to represent the external hosts in
        the internal realm) are unchanged (i.e., not NAT-ed). Therefore,
        the above requirement is met without additional work.

        For NAT64, the NAT devices belonging to a redundancy group
        SHOULD be configured with an identical Prefix64. Since the
        NAT64 uses stateless address translation for the external hosts,
        using the same Prefix64 in the Backup NAT can guarantee the
        internal hosts to see the same internal addresses for the
        external hosts.

        For NAT46, NAT devices in a redundancy group SHOULD be
        configured with an identical IPv4 address pool. A subset of
        translation state information SHOULD be synchronized among
        these NAT devices through a dedicated state synchronization
        protocol such as [NAT-Sync]. This translation state ensures
        that the Backup NAT, once taking over as a Primary NAT, will
        assign the same IPv4 addresses to the external IPv6 hosts for
        the internal IPv4 hosts.

4.1.2 External Realm

   Each NAT device in a NAT redundancy group is configured with a
   different external address pool. A route to that external pool is
   then announced into the external realm by the NAT device or the NAT
   immediate router.

        For NAT44, DS-Lite and NAT64: NAT devices SHOULD be configured
        with different external IPv4 address pools. These address pools
        are not overlapped. Otherwise, when the Primary NAT fails and
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        happen. For example, assuming a Primary NAT NAT-ed internal
        host Host-A to IPv4-A. IPv4-A is an address which belongs to
        the external address pool. If the Backup NAT after taking over
        the primary NAT was configured with the same pool, the Backup
        NAT MAY assign the same IPv4-A to another internal host Host-B.
        So, Host-B may receive datagrams originally targeted for Host-A.
        This might cause confusion to Host-B. In addition, by using
        different external address pools on each NAT device, incoming
        datagrams of a given session from the external hosts are
        ensured to always traverse through the Backup NAT device after
        the Primary NAT failover happens.

        For NAT46, the issue occurred in NAT44 and NAT64 cases will
        not happen when Primary and Backup NAT use the same external
        IPv6 address pool (i.e., the Prefix64). The NAT46 relies on
        stateless address translation for the internal hosts. Hence the
        external hosts can use any NAT46 to reach the internal hosts.
        In Cold Standby mechanism, the Primary and Backup NAT MAY use
        different Prefix64s. In contrast, the Primary and Backup NAT in
        Hot Standby mechanism MUST use an identical Prefix64.

4.1.3 NAT Reachability Announcement

   In order to force the IP datagrams from the internal realm to always
   traverse through the Primary NAT to the external realm, the Primary
   NAT SHOULD announce into the internal realm a route towards the
   external realm.

        For NAT44, the Primary NAT announces an IPv4 default route
        into the internal realm.

        For DS-Lite, the Primary NAT announces a host route into the
        internal realm.

        For NAT64, the Primary NAT announces a route for the Prefix64
        into the internal realm.

        For NAT46, the Primary NAT announces a route for the internal
        address pool into the internal realm (If the internal address
        pool can be aggregated to one prefix).

   The Primary NAT SHOULD attempt to withdraw its previously announced
   routes when it ceases the Primary role due to pre-configured
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   When the Primary NAT fails and the Backup NAT takes over, datagrams
   from the internal hosts destined for the external realm SHOULD pass
   through the Backup NAT. Hence, when the Backup NAT is manually
   configured to switch over to become the Primary NAT, the Backup NAT
   (or associated router) SHOULD announce the same route into the
   internal realm. but the routing cost of this route MUST be set to a
   higher value than the route announced by the Primary NAT.

   Alternatively, the Primary NAT announces several more specific
   routes into the internal realm while the Backup NAT announces an
   aggregate route. Taken the NAT46 as an example, assuming the
   internal address pool is 10.0.0.0/8, the Primary NAT announces two
   more specific routes to 10.0.0.0/9 and 10.128.0.0/9 respectively
   while the Backup NAT announces an aggregate route to 10.0.0.0/8. In
   case the Primary NAT and the Backup NAT are automatically elected
   through a dedicated election process, the Backup NAT would be
   elected as a new Primary NAT once the old Primary one fails, so it
   is not necessary for the Backup NAT to make the above route
   announcements until it is elected as a new Primary NAT.

   In order for the external hosts to traverse through the NAT to reach
   the internal hosts, the Primary and Backup NAT SHOULD announce a
   route of its own external address pool into the external realm.

4.2. Hot Standby Mode

4.2.1 Internal Realm

   The procedure is identical to Section 4.1.1.

4.2.2 External Realm

   To preserve the established sessions during the failover and to keep
   the internal addresses unchanged for the external hosts, the
   external addresses for the internal hosts MUST also be preserved. To
   preserve the external address of the internal host after NAT-ed, the
   NAT devices in a redundancy group MUST use an identical external
   address pool. In addition, they MUST assign the same external
   address (or address/port pair) to a given internal host.

        For NAT46, the Primary NAT and Backup NAT MUST use an
        identical Prefix64.

        For NAT44, DS-Lite and NAT64, the NAT devices in a redundancy
        group MUST use the same external address pool and the




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        translation states on the Primary NAT device MUST be
        synchronized to the Backup NAT(s) in a timely fashion.

4.2.3 NAT Reachability Announcement

   In order to force IP datagrams between the internal realm and the
   external realm always traverse through the Primary NAT, the Primary
   NAT (or its associated router) SHOULD announce into the internal
   realm a route towards the external realm and announce into the
   external realm a route towards the external address pool.

   Once the connectivity to either the external realm or the internal
   realm is lost, the Primary NAT device itself or a third party SHOULD
   attempt to withdraw the above routes. If the Primary NAT and the
   Backup NAT are specified manually, the Backup NAT device (or its
   associated router) SHOULD also announce those routes, but with
   higher enough cost or larger granularity, so as to prepare for the
   failover.

   When the Primary NAT fails, the datagrams towards the external realm
   will pass through the Backup NAT device. In case the Primary NAT and
   the Backup are automatically elected through a dedicated election
   procedure, the Backup NAT would be elected as a new Primary NAT when
   the old Primary NAT device fails. Consequently, it is not necessary
   for the Backup NAT to make the above route announcement until it is
   elected as a new Primary NAT.

5. Load Balancing Mechanisms

5.1. Framework

   Based on the above redundancy modes, one can further realize load
   balancing among a group of NAT devices. The basic idea is to create
   two redundancy groups (e.g., Group A and Group B) on these NAT
   devices, make one device as the Primary NAT for Group A and the
   Backup NAT for Group B, while make the other as the Primary NAT for
   Group B and the Backup NAT for Group A.

   Taking NAT64 as an example, NAT devices are configured with two
   prefix64s (e.g., Prefix64-A and Prefix64-B) corresponding to the two
   redundancy groups, and one device is designated as the Primary NAT
   for Group A and the Backup NAT for Group B, while the other as the
   Backup NAT for Group A and the Primary NAT for Group B. Therefore,
   the IPv6 datagrams towards the IPv4 external realm are balanced
   among these NAT devices according to their destination addresses
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   For load balancing together with cold standby, each NAT device could
   either use the same external address pool or different external
   address pools corresponding to these redundancy groups. However, in
   the case of NAT64, in order to easily determine which Prefix64
   SHOULD be used for synthesizing IPv6 address of a given IPv4 host in
   the return direction, it would be better to assign different address
   pools for different redundancy groups. In this way, the Prefix64 can
   be easily determined according to the destination IPv4 address in
   the return packets sent from the IPv4 host. Besides, the external
   address pools on one NAT device SHOULD NOT have any overlap with
   those of the other NAT device. Otherwise, the same address or
   address/port pair could be assigned occasionally to different
   internal hosts. In contrast, for load balancing together with hot
   standby, different external address pools SHOULD be configured for
   these redundancy groups. Otherwise, the return packets towards the
   internal realm may be forwarded to a wrong NAT device.

5.2. Load Balancing Considerations

   The NAT device which is used when translating outgoing packets MUST
   be crossed by incoming packets. To achieve this, distinct external
   IP addresses SHOULD be configured on each NAT device otherwise the
   communication will fail.

   Since distinct external IP addresses are used per NAT device, and
   because a given customer should be seen with the same external IP
   address, the same NAT device MUST be used for all the traffic issued
   by the same customer. Therefore, the load balancing SHOULD NOT be
   based on the traffic.

   Criteria for distributing customers among a set of NAT devices MAY
   be implemented during the IP configuration phase or during the
   processing of actual traffic sent by the host. Below are listed some
   examples:

        For NAT64

             DNS64 can be used as a means to load balance the hosts
             among a group of NAT. In such case, DNS64 SHOULD be able
             to assign the same NAT to the same hosts. Means to
             identify the host should be supported. This is not
             natively supported by DNS servers. A drawback of this mode
             is that for traffic which does not require a DNS
             resolution, the packets may flow using a distinct NAT
             device, and therefore use a distinct external IP address.




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             Another alternative is to rely on DHCP to provision
             dedicated DNS64. The load of NAT devices may be provided
             to assist the selection of the DNS64 to be used for a new
             connecting host.

        For DS-Lite:

             The same IPv6 address is assigned to the internal IP
             interface of the AFTR; hosts are distributed natively
             among NAT devices which are operational (anycast-based
             mode). The efficiency of this mode depends on the
             underlying topology and routing engineering policies. An
             AFTR may be overload if the routing is not appropriately
             tuned.

             Distributing the hosts among a set of AFTR devices is
             achieved during the provisioning phase. Based on actual
             load criteria, the service provisioning platform (e.g.,
             DHCP server) assigns a given AFTR to the requesting host.
             Means to monitor the actual load of AFTR devices SHOULD be
             supported. These means can be local (e.g., configure a
             threshold of the number of customers to be services with
             each AFTR device) or be dynamic based on the actual load
             of AFTR devices.

             Load balancing can be implemented during the DNS resolution
             phase if a FQDN is provisioned to the host. During the DNS
             resolution phase, an IP address is returned to the
             requesting hosts based on the actual load of live AFTRs.

             Another scheme when AFTRs are geo-graphically distributed,
             the host uses the domain search name option together with
             a generic FQDN name of the AFTR to retrieve the AFTR to
             which the host is bound. This mode requires that
             individual entries are configured in the DNS. No load-
             based machinery is supported by the DNS server.

   An additional scheme would be the deployment of a farm of NAT
   devices with a load-balancer which is able to redirect the traffic
   to the appropriate NAT instance. Load-balancing can be based on the
   actual load of each NAT instance.

6. Election Protocol Considerations

   An election process and associated protocol(s) is used to
   automatically elect one NAT device among a NAT redundancy group as



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   the Primary NAT and the others as Backup NATs. Once the Primary NAT
   fails, the Backup NAT with the highest priority SHOULD take over the
   Primary NAT role after a short delay. The election protocol is also
   used to track the connectivity to the external realm and the
   internal realm. Once connections to the external realm or the
   internal realm lost, the NAT device is not qualified to be the
   Primary NAT and it will withdraw the route towards the external
   realm announced previously. In the case of hot standby, it SHOULD
   also withdraw the route towards the external address pool.

   As an implementation example, VRRP [RFC2338] can be used as the
   automatic election protocol. In addition, an interface tracking
   mechanism can also be used to adjust the priority to influence the
   election results.

   If two NAT devices are directly connected via an Ethernet network,
   VRRP can run directly on the Ethernet interfaces. Otherwise, some
   extra configuration or protocol changes need to be implemented. One
   option is to create conditions for VRRP to run among these devices.
   For example, to create a VPLS [RFC4761][RFC4762] instance and enable
   IP functions and run VRRP on those VLAN interfaces which are bound
   to that VPLS instance. If enabling IP on those interfaces is not
   supported, the following trick to realize the same goal, but at a
   cost of consuming two physical interfaces on each NAT router: create
   a VPLS instance among a set of NAT devices, and on each of them one
   Ethernet interface is bound to that VPLS instance, and another IP-
   enabled Ethernet interface is locally connected with that interface.
   Then VRRP can run on those IP enabled Ethernet interfaces which are
   all connected to that VPLS instance. Another option is to extend
   VRRP so that VRRP neighbors can be specified manually and VRRP
   messages can be exchanged directly among VRRP neighbors in unicast.

   VRRP is only an implementation example of the election process.
   Other protocols MAY be used to manage the roles of Primary and
   Backup.

7. State Synchronization Protocol Considerations

   [NAT-Sync] defines a candidate solution to NAT state synchronization
   by using Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP) [RFC2334]. For
   more information about the proposed solution, the reader is invited
   to refer to [NAT-Sync].

8. Security Considerations

   TBD.



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9. IANA Considerations

   There are no IANA considerations for this document.

10. Acknowledgments

   The author would like to thank Dan Wing and Dave Thaler for their
   insightful comments and reviews, and thank Dacheng Zhang and Xuewei
   Wang for their valuable editorial reviews.

11. References

11.1. Normative References

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

11.2. Informative References

   [RFC3022]  Srisuresh, P. and K. Egevang, "Traditional IP Network
             Address NAT (Traditional NAT)", RFC 3022, January 2001.

   [RFC2663] Srisuresh, P. and M. Holdrege, "IP Network Address
             NAT (NAT) Terminology and Considerations", RFC
             2663, August 1999.

   [RFC2766] Tsirtsis, G. and P. Srisuresh, "Network Address
             Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)",
             RFC 2766, February 2000.

   [RFC4966] Aoun, C. and E. Davies, "Reasons to Move the Network
             Address NAT - Protocol NAT (NAT-PT) to Historic Status",
             RFC 4966, July 2007.

   [RFC2338] Knight, S., et. al., "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol",
             RFC2338, April 1998.

   [RFC2334] Luciani, J., Armitage, G., Halpern, J., and N. Doraswamy,
             "Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)", RFC 2334,
             April 1998.

   [RFC4761] Kompella, K. and Y. Rekhter, "Virtual Private LAN Service
             (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling",RFC
             4761, January 2007.





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   [RFC4762] Lasserre, M. and Kompella, V. (Editors), "Virtual Private
             LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
             Signaling", RFC 4762, January 2007.

   [NAT64] Bagnulo, M., Matthews, P., and I. Beijnum, "Stateful
             NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6
             Clients to IPv4 Servers", draft-ietf-behave-v6v4-xlate-
             stateful-12 (work in progress), July 2010.

   [NAT444] Shirasaki, Y., Miyakawa, S., Nakagawa, A., Yamaguchi, J.,
             and H. Ashida, "NAT444 with ISP Shared Address",
             draft-shirasaki-nat444-isp-shared-addr-02 (work in
             progress), September 2009.

   [DS-Lite] Durand, A., Droms, R., Woodyatt, J., and Lee, Y., "Dual-
             stack lite broadband deployments post IPv4 exhaustion",
             draft-ietf-softwire-dual-stack-lite-06 (work in progress),
             Auguest 2010.

   [Format] Bao, C., Huitema, C., Bagnulo, M., Boucadair, M., and Li,
             X., "Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation", draft-ietf-
             behave-address-format-10.txt (work in progress), August,
             2010.

   [Framework] Baker, F., Li,X., Bao,C., and Yin,K., "Framework for
             IPv4/IPv6 Translation", draft-ietf-behave-v6v4-framework-
             07 (work in progress), February, 2010.

   [NAT-Sync] Chen, D., Xu, X., Halpern, J., and Boucadair, M., "NAT
             State Synchronization Using SCSP", draft-xu-behave-nat-
             state-sync-02 (work in progress), August, 2010.

Authors' Addresses

   Xiaohu Xu
   Huawei Technologies,
   No.3 Xinxi Rd., Shang-Di Information Industry Base,
   Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100085
   P.R. China
   Email: xuxh@huawei.com

   Mohamed Boucadair
   France Telecom
   3, av Francois Chateau
   Rennes 35000
   France



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   Email: mohamed.boucadair@orange-ftgroup.com

   Yiu Lee
   Comcast
   1, Comcast center
   Philadelphia, PA  19103
   USA
   Email: yiu_lee@cable.comcast.com

   Gang Chen
   China Mobile
   53A,Xibianmennei Ave.
   Beijing  100053
   P.R.China
   Email: phdgang@gmail.com