Issue181

Issue Title Relationship to IETF BCP on NAT traversal
Document: GIST Protocol Specification v11 Section: 7.2
Category: Editorial Priority: Must Fix
Status: Text Proposed

Created on 2007-02-12.11:49:11 by reh, last changed 2007-02-12.22:37:35.

Messages
msg490 Author: reh Date: 2007-02-12.22:29:31
Added the following text at the end of 7.2 (which is now the introduction to the
entire NAT traversal discussion):

   In all cases, GIST interaction with the NAT is determined by the way
   the NAT handles the Query/Response messages in the initial GIST
   handshake; these messages are UDP datagrams.  Best current practice
   for NAT treatment of UDP traffic is defined in [28], and the legacy
   NAT handling defined in this specification is fully consistent with
   that document.  The GIST-aware NAT traversal technique is equivalent
   to requiring an Application Layer Gateway in the NAT for a specific
   class of UDP transactions, namely those where the destination UDP
   port for the initial message is the GIST port (see Section 9).
msg485 Author: reh Date: 2007-02-12.11:49:11
From Sam Hartman:

... The advice in section 7.2 goes against the requirements of section 7 of
draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp (an approved BCP).  Even so, I think it is necessary
for GIST to do these things but I think we need to be very careful about the
interactions with other things deployed on the Internet. 

and specifically:

Explicitly call out this document's divergence from draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp.
History
Date User Action Args
2007-02-12 22:37:35rehsetstatus: No Discussion -> Text Proposed
2007-02-12 22:29:31rehsetmessages: + msg490
2007-02-12 11:49:11rehcreate