Hi, JF,

See inline

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunset4 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JF Tremblay
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 10:30 PM
> To: GangChen
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [sunset4] WG Adoption call for
> draft-chen-sunset4-nat64-port-allocation
> 
> Inline.
> 
> > On May 3, 2015, at 9:36 AM, GangChen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for the comments. I'd seen it's great useful to improve the
> > draft quality.
> > Please see my reply inline.
> >
> > 2015-05-02 4:36 GMT+08:00, JF Tremblay
> <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> 2.4.1 "The storage of log information may pose a challenge to
> >> operators, since it requires additional resources and data inspection
> >> processes to identify users."
> >> The data inspection remark here does not make sense. The NAT might
> >> correlate source addresses to user information if it has it
> >> available, but it won’t inspect. The NAT does not store either.
> >
> > the issue is a NAT may don't know what source address should be correlated.
> > Therefore, the NAT have to store entire information preparing the searching.
> > For your information, the NAT should store at least three-months log
> > in our networks.
> 
> In my opinion:
> - NATs do not / should not store logs. This is done by an external server 
> (syslog
> or other).
> - NATs do not correlate source addresses to users, unless it already has that
> information available. This can be done offline by a server with much more
> ressources.

Agree, log processing is out of the scope of NAT.

> This could be guidance to put in this document, if not mentioned elsewhere.
> (but I thought that was quite obvious)
> 
> >> 2.4.3: Why not cover port block randomization here as well?
> >
> > Good to know more if you point me a reference of "port block
> randomization”.
> 
> There isn’t a reference. I might have coined the term a couple of years back,
> not sure. This is basically the act of randomizing the assignments of blocks
> instead or in conjunction with port randomization within the block.
> This could be a concept defined and discussed in this document.

I think you are talking about the port block randomization algorithms similar 
to those defined in RFC6431.
Will add some analysis and reference

> 
> /JF
> 
> 
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