Authors, you have a draft that will expire in a few weeks, as well as one
or more substantive reviews to address. Please push a revision, and then
we will do an adoption call so that we can discuss it further as a WG
draft during the meeting in honolulu.


Thanks,

Wes



On 8/13/14, 7:38 AM, "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Lee, thank you for the time you put into this. I won't be able to deal
>with a lot of it personally because it requires my co-authors'
>knowledge. However, based on the IPR discussion at the meeting, I think
>we will split out deterministic CGN and let it go on its way as an
>individual draft. I can do that step and respond to as much of your
>review as I can. My co-authors can take the next step or advise me on
>the remaining issues.
>
>Tom Taylor
>
>On 24/07/2014 4:02 PM, Lee Howard wrote:
>> Doing my homework before the WG meeting this afternoon (and re-sending
>>from
>> the correct email address). . .
>>
>> This document needs significant work and reorganization.
>>
>> 1. Introduction
>> You say:
>> provide transparent routing to end hosts
>> I think it should say:
>> provide connectivity to end hosts
>>
>> Is it worth adding a sentence that these methods are only useful for
>>address
>> sharing methods, not NPT, and not encapsulation mechanisms?  It may not
>>be
>> necessary.
>> But, for instance, this sentence:
>> The CGN may not do Network Address Port Translation   (NAPT), but only
>> Network Address Translation (NAT) [RFC3022
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3022> ].
>>
>> THat's not an rfc2119 "may not," it's a description of one scenario.  I
>>had
>> to read it four times to figure that out; maybe it would be clearer as:
>>> The CGN might do Network Address Port Translation
>>>     (NAPT) without Network Address Translation (NAT) [RFC3022
>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3022> ].  In
>>>     this scenario, there is no concern about port assignment. When
>>>NAPT is
>>> involved, Š
>> Then you can enumerate the "does" and "does not" cases.
>>
>> independently of the particular flavour should be independent of the
>> particular flavour
>> Section 2.1 Port Consumption on NAT64
>>
>> This editorializing is unnecessary:
>>> Thanks to its simplicity and efficiency, NAT64 will likely be
>>>     deployed widely.
>>
>> Also,
>>   That is, a NAT44 will be deployed in an
>>     IPv4-only environment.
>> NAT44 + Native IPv6 is a perfectly reasonable and likely scenario, so
>>this
>> is untrue.  But this whole paragraph reads like a sales pitch for
>>NAT64: cut
>> it out.
>> Second paragraph:
>> One of the authors did a test comparison of port consumption on NAT64
>>     and NAT44.
>> Can you just cite the study?  Can you say, "A study of port consumption
>> [portstudy]. . ."  Though again, this whole study is only true to a
>>point in
>> time (though what version of the Alexa100 includes 43 sites with AAAA I
>> don't know).
>>
>> NAT64 "provides everyone with incentives to use IPv6,"
>> What incentives?  Does it buy ice cream for everyone who uses IPv6?
>>Either
>> explain, or, since defending the use of NAT64 is out of place in this
>> document, remove.
>>
>> [as v6 transition progresses,] it will be possible to relax the
>>     multiplexing ratio of IPv4 address sharing.
>> This is a good point.
>>
>>   change of IPv4 address will cause
>>     renumbering of IPv6 addresses.
>> I don't see how.  But again, I don't think this is intended as a NAT
>> discussion document, I thought it was just evaluating port allocation
>> methods.  Clean up that paragraph.
>>
>> It has been learned from subscribers'
>>            behaviors that the average number of sessions consumed by one
>>            user's device is around 200 to 300 ports.  Several devices
>>may
>>            appear behind a CPE.  Administrators may configure a range
>>            with 1000 ports to each CPE in fixed networks.
>> Avoid the passive voice.  Can you cite the 200-300 number?  Is that
>>true in
>> 2014, or for as long as this document is intended to be useful?  Yes,
>> administators may configure 1000 ports.  Or 1001.  Or 999.  Maybe what
>>you
>> mean is:
>>   1000 ports per subscriber household will provide enough room for
>>multiple
>> active users.  Administrators should monitor usage to adjust this
>>number if
>> users are being limited by this number, or if usage is so low that fewer
>> ports would be sufficient.
>>
>> non-contiguous port range for the
>>        sake of attack defense.
>> I think you explain this later in the document, but a reference to what
>>you
>> mean here would help.
>> A+P style [citation needed]
>>
>> 2.3.1  Use of the word "older" sounds perjorative.  Do you mean to imply
>> that NAT64 is obsolete?  Both in the title and text.
>> Stepping outside
>>     the boundaries of NAT64 for the moment, DS-Lite [RFC6333
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6333> ] refers to
>>     the cautions in [RFC6269 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6269> ] but
>>does
>> not specify any port allocation
>>     method.
>> First, that's pretty informal language.  Second, why point to DS-Lite
>> pointing to RFC6269; why not just point to RFC6269?
>> 2.3.2 Current Work on Stateless Transition Technologies
>> The proposals made in Section 3
>>
>><http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chen-sunset4-cgn-port-allocation-04#sec
>>tio
>> n-3>  and Section 4
>>
>><http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chen-sunset4-cgn-port-allocation-04#sec
>>tio
>> n-4>  do not apply
>>     to the current work in progress because that work has gone in
>>another
>>     direction.  That work includes:
>> Do we need to enumerate protocols that this work doesn't apply to?  If
>>so,
>> then I think this document is making normative references to those
>>protocols
>> (since their port allocation methods could, potentially, change until
>>they
>> are published), which will delay publication until lw4over6, MAP-T,
>>MAP-E,
>> 4rd have all been published.  Having said that, this may be a useful
>> comparison of possible methods, but I would try to limit it to that.
>> Sections 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 are excellent.
>> 2.4.3 s/alllocation/allocation
>> 3.1 US means U.S.?  Americans have higher traffic profiles?
>> 3.2 Remove sentence "Here is how dynamic allocation of port-ranges would
>> work in greater detail. "
>> 3.3 Section 11 of RFC6269 refers to fragmentation; you mean section 12.
>> Is
>> this section supposed to be a privacy considerations section?
>> Discoverability?  I think in the era of Pervasive Surveillance,
>>reference to
>> other IETF work is needed.  Also, please refer to RFC6302.
>> I'm not sure, though, that the discussion of server port logging is
>> appropriate in a document about how to allocate ports in CGN.  A
>>mention of
>> it makes sense, but evaluating the capability of different web servers,
>>with
>> a config guide, seems out of place.
>> These "traceability" issues apply equally to all port allocation
>>methods,
>> right?  Maybe a Privacy Considerations section at the end.
>> I didn't review section 4, because I've reviewed it before.  And I ran
>>out
>> of time.
>> 5. Security Considerations needs a rewrite‹it completely ignores
>>Section 4.
>> That's all I have on this round.
>> Lee
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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