Internet Engineering Task Force R. Despres Internet-Draft RD-IPtech Intended status: Informational July 16, 2012 Expires: January 17, 2013 Feature Analysis Tool for stateless IPv4/IPv6 (MAP-T, MAP-E, 4rd) draft-despres-softwire-stateless-analysis-tool-02 Abstract This document proposes a discussion tool for the Softwire meeting at IETF 84 in Vancouver. Significant differentiating features between the MAP approach (proposed standards MAP-T and MAP-E) and the unified approach (proposed standard 4rd) are presented in tabular format. Its purpose is to facilitate decision making, and is therefore temporary. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Feature-Comparison Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Despres Expires January 17, 2013 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Stateless Analysis Tool July 2012 1. Introduction Stateless solutions that are proposed for residual IPv4 service across IPv6-only networks will be discussed at IETF 84 in Vancouver, July 27 to August 3 2012. This document proposes a tool to facilitate common understanding during these discussions, and thus facilitate decision making on what to standardize and why. It contains tables in which, for each of the major proposed specifications, MAP-T, MAP-E and 4rd, the most significant differentiating features are listed: o Table 1 deals with features that depend on whether IPv4 packets are twice translated (MAP-T), tunneled with packet encapsulation (MAP-E), or tunneled with reversible IPv4/IPv6 header translation (4rd). o Table 2 deals with features that depend on how IPv6 addresses are derived from IPv4 addresses, plus ports if applicable. Table 3 deals with miscellaneous features. Documents used are: o [I-D.ietf-softwire-map] for MAP-T and MAP-E o [I-D.ietf-softwire-4rd] for 4rd Issues identified on the tracker of trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/softwire/ trac/report/1 are referenced by their ticket numbers. Despres Expires January 17, 2013 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Stateless Analysis Tool July 2012 2. Feature-Comparison Tables +----+------------------------------+-------+-------+-----+---------+ | | Features that depend on | MAP-T | MAP-E | 4rd | Issue # | | | header formats | | | | in | | | | | | | tracker | +----+------------------------------+-------+-------+-----+---------+ | H1 | IPv6-only ACLs applicable to | Y | N | Y | | | | IPv4 packets | | | | | | H2 | Support of DF=1 fragmented | N | Y | Y | #8 | | | packets (required by | | | | | | | RFC4821) | | | | | | H3 | Max performance where | Y | N | Y | #9 | | | TCP/IPv6 is faster than | | | | | | | TCP/IPv4/IPv6 | | | | | | H4 | For shared-address CEs, | N | Y | Y | | | | support of DCCP, UDP lite, | | | | | | | and any future protocols | | | | | | | using port fields and | | | | | | | checksum algorithm of TCP | | | | | | H5 | IPv6 congestion | Y | N | Y | | | | notifications of RFC 3168 | | | | | | | forwarded in IPv4 | | | | | | H6 | Null-checksum UDP datagrams | N | Y | Y | #6 | | | cannot be sent to wrong | | | | | | | destinations with valid | | | | | | | checksums | | | | | +----+------------------------------+-------+-------+-----+---------+ Table 1 +----+-------------------------------------+--------+-----+---------+ | | Features that depend on IPv6 | MAP-T | 4rd | Issue # | | | address formats | and | | in | | | | MAP-E | | tracker | +----+-------------------------------------+--------+-----+---------+ | A1 | Applicability to sites that use | N | Y | #5 | | | subnet ID = 0 | | | | | A2 | Applicability to CEs that are | N | Y | | | | behind third-party CPEs | | | | | A3 | IPv6 addresses of IPv4 endpoints | N | Y | | | | are recognizable without knowledge | | | | | | of Domain mapping rules (for ACLs | | | | | | etc.) | | | | +----+-------------------------------------+--------+-----+---------+ Despres Expires January 17, 2013 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Stateless Analysis Tool July 2012 Table 2 +----+----------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+ | | Miscellaneous | MAP | MAP | 4rd | Issue # | | | | -T | -E | | in | | | | | | | tracker | +----+----------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+ | M1 | IPv6 Packet reassembly never | Y | N | Y | #3 | | | needed in BRs | | | | | | M3 | BR-CE compatibility guaranteed | N | N | Y | | | | by the number of mapping rules | | | | | | | CEs MUST be able to support | | | | | | M4 | IP header length | 40 | 60 | 40 | | | | | or | or | or | | | | | 48 | 68 | 48 | | +----+----------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+ Table 3 3. Informative References [I-D.ietf-softwire-4rd] Despres, R., Penno, R., Lee, Y., Chen, G., S. Jiang, and M. Chen "IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - a unified Stateless Solution (4rd)", draft-ietf-softwire-4rd-03 (work in progress), July 2012. [I-D.ietf-softwire-map] Troan, O., Dec, W., Li, X., Bao, C., Zhai, Y., Matsushima, S., and T. Murakami, "Mapping of Address and Port (MAP)", draft-ietf-softwire-map-01 (work in progress), June 2012. Author's Address Remi Despres RD-IPtech 3 rue du President Wilson Levallois, France Email: despres.remi@laposte.net Despres Expires January 17, 2013 [Page 5]