Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                            Y. Lee
Request for Comments: 6908                                       Comcast
Category: Informational                                      R. Maglione
ISSN: 2070-1721                                            Cisco Systems
                                                            C. Williams
                                                              MCSR Labs
                                                           C. Jacquenet
                                                           M. Boucadair
                                                         France Telecom
                                                             March 2013


            Deployment Considerations for Dual-Stack Lite

Abstract

  This document discusses the deployment issues of and the requirements
  for the deployment and operation of Dual-Stack Lite (DS-Lite).  This
  document describes the various deployment considerations and
  applicability of the DS-Lite architecture.

Status of This Memo

  This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
  published for informational purposes.

  This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
  (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
  received public review and has been approved for publication by the
  Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not all documents
  approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
  Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.

  Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
  and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
  http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6908.















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Table of Contents

  1. Overview ........................................................3
  2. AFTR Deployment Considerations ..................................3
     2.1. Interface Consideration ....................................3
     2.2. MTU and Fragmentation Considerations .......................4
     2.3. Logging at the AFTR ........................................4
     2.4. Blacklisting a Shared IPv4 Address .........................5
     2.5. AFTR's Policies ............................................5
          2.5.1. Outgoing Policy .....................................5
          2.5.2. Incoming Policy .....................................6
     2.6. AFTR Impacts on Accounting Process .........................6
     2.7. Reliability Considerations of AFTR .........................7
     2.8. Strategic Placement of AFTR ................................8
     2.9. AFTR Considerations for Geographically Aware Services ......8
     2.10. Impacts on QoS Policy .....................................9
     2.11. Port Forwarding Considerations ............................9
     2.12. DS-Lite Tunnel Security ..................................10
     2.13. IPv6-Only Network Considerations .........................10
  3. B4 Deployment Considerations ...................................10
     3.1. DNS Deployment Considerations .............................11
     3.2. IPv4 Service Monitoring ...................................11
          3.2.1. B4 Remote Management ...............................11
          3.2.2. IPv4 Connectivity Check ............................11
  4. Security Considerations ........................................12
  5. Acknowledgements ...............................................12
  6. References .....................................................12
     6.1. Normative References ......................................12
     6.2. Informative References ....................................12







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1.  Overview

  DS-Lite [RFC6333] is a transition technique that enables operators to
  multiplex public IPv4 addresses while provisioning only IPv6 to
  users.  DS-Lite is designed to continue offering IPv4 services while
  operators upgrade their networks incrementally to IPv6.  DS-Lite
  combines IPv4-in-IPv6 softwire [RFC2473] and Network Address
  Translator IPv4/IPv4 (NAT44) [RFC3022] to enable more than one user
  to share a public IPv4 address.

  While Appendix A of [RFC6333] explains how to deploy DS-Lite within
  specific scenarios, the purpose of this document is to describe
  problems that arise when deploying DS-Lite and what guidance should
  be taken to mitigate those issues.  The information is based on real
  deployment experience and is compiled in one comprehensive document
  so that operators aren't required to search through various RFCs
  deciding which sections are applicable and impact their DS-Lite
  deployment.

2.  AFTR Deployment Considerations

2.1.  Interface Consideration

  Address Family Transition Router (AFTR) is a network element that is
  deployed inside the operator's network.  An AFTR can be a stand-alone
  device or be embedded into a router.  The AFTR is the IPv4-in-IPv6
  tunnel termination point and the NAT44 device.  It is deployed at the
  IPv4-IPv6 network border where the tunnel interface is IPv6 and the
  external NAT44 interface is IPv4.  The Basic Bridging BroadBand (B4)
  element [RFC6333] is a function implemented on a dual-stack-capable
  node (either a host device or a home gateway) that creates a tunnel
  to an AFTR.  Although an operator can configure both softwire tunnel
  termination and interface for NAT44 functions on a single physical
  interface (yet, keep them logically separated), there are scenarios
  we recommend to configure two individual interfaces (i.e., one
  dedicated for IPv4 and one dedicated for IPv6) to segregate the
  functions.

  o  The access network between the B4 and AFTR is an IPv6-only
     network, and the network between the AFTR and IPv4 network is an
     IPv4-only network.  In this deployment scenario, the AFTR
     interface to the IPv6-only network and the interface to the IPv4
     network should use two physical interfaces on the AFTR.

  o  Operators may use Operations Support System (OSS) tools (e.g.,
     Multi Router Traffic Grapher) to collect interface data packet
     count information.  If an operator wants to separate the softwire
     function and NAT44 function on different physical interfaces for



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     collecting a data packet count, and the AFTR does not support
     packet count for logical interfaces, they should use two physical
     interfaces on the AFTR.

2.2.  MTU and Fragmentation Considerations

  DS-Lite is part tunneling protocol.  Tunneling introduces overhead to
  the packet and decreases the effective MTU size after encapsulation.
  DS-Lite users may experience problems with applications such as not
  being able to download Internet pages or transfer large files.

  Since fragmentation and reassembly is not optimal, the operator
  should do everything possible to eliminate the need for it.  If the
  operator uses simple IPv4-in-IPv6 softwire [RFC2473], it is
  recommended that the MTU size of the IPv6 network between the B4 and
  the AFTR accounts for the additional overhead (40 bytes).  If the
  access network MTU size is fixed and cannot be changed, the operator
  should be aware that the B4 and the AFTR must support fragmentation
  as defined in [RFC6333].  The operator should also be aware that
  reassembly at the Tunnel Exit-Point is resource intensive as a large
  number of B4 may terminate on the same AFTR.  Scalability of the AFTR
  is advised in this scenario.

2.3.  Logging at the AFTR

  A source-specific log is essential for backtracking specific hosts
  when a problem is identified with one of the AFTR's NAT-ed addresses.
  The source-specific log contains the B4 IPv6 source address,
  transport protocol, source port, and source IPv4 address after it has
  been NAT-ed.  Using the source-specific log, operators can uniquely
  identify a specific host when a DS-Lite host experiences problems
  accessing the IPv4 network.  To maximize IPv4 shared ratio, an
  operator may configure a short timeout value for NAT44 entries.  This
  will result in a large number of logs created by the AFTR.  For
  operators who desire to aggregate the logs, they can configure the
  AFTR to preallocate a range of ports to each B4.  This range of ports
  will be used in the NAT44 function, and the AFTR will create one log
  entry for the whole port range.  This aggregation can significantly
  reduce the log size for source-specific logging.

  Some operators may require logging both source and destination
  information for a host's connections.  This is called a destination-
  specific log.  A destination-specific log contains the B4's IPv6
  address, transport protocol, source port, source IPv4 address after
  it has been NAT-ed, destination port, and destination IPv4 address.
  A destination-specific log is session-based; the operators should be
  aware that they will not be able to aggregate log entries.  When
  using a destination-specific log, the operator must be careful of the



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  large number of log entries created by the AFTR.  Some AFTR
  implementations may keep the logs in their main memory.  This may be
  CPU and memory resource intensive.  The operators should configure
  the AFTR to periodically send logs to storage facility and then purge
  them from the AFTR.

2.4.  Blacklisting a Shared IPv4 Address

  The AFTR is a NAT device.  It enables multiple B4s to share a single
  public IPv4 address.  [RFC6269] discusses some considerations when
  sharing an IPv4 address.  When a public IPv4 address is blacklisted
  by a remote peer, this may affect multiple users or hosts.  Operators
  deploying DS-Lite should be aware that Internet hosts may not be
  aware that a given single IPv4 address is actually shared by multiple
  B4s.  A content provider might block services for a shared IPv4
  address and this would then impact all B4s sharing this particular
  IPv4 address.  The operator would be likely to receive calls related
  to service outage and would then need to take appropriate corrective
  actions.  [RFC6302] describes necessary information required to
  identify a user or host in shared address environment.  It is also
  worth mention that [NAT-REVEAL] analyses different approaches to
  identify a user or host in a shared address environment.

2.5.  AFTR's Policies

  There are two types of AFTR policies:

  o  Outgoing Policies apply to packets originating from B4 to the
     AFTR.  These policies should be provisioned on the AFTR's IPv6
     interface that is connected to the B4s.

  o  Incoming Policies apply to packets originating from IPv4 networks
     to B4s.  These policies should be provisioned on the IPv4
     interface connected to the IPv4 network.

2.5.1.  Outgoing Policy

  Outgoing Policies may include Access Control List (ACL) and Quality
  of Service (QoS) settings.  These policies control the packets from
  B4s to the AFTR.  For example, the operator may configure the AFTR
  only to accept B4 connections that originated from specific IPv6
  prefixes configured in the AFTR.  More discussion of this use case
  can be found in Section 2.12.  An operator may configure the AFTR to
  give priority to the packets marked by certain Differentiated
  Services Code Point (DSCP) values [RFC2475].  Furthermore, an AFTR
  may also apply an Outgoing Policy to limit the rate of port
  allocation for a single B4's IPv6 address.




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  Some operators offer different service level agreements (SLAs) to
  users to meet their requirements.  Some users may require more ports
  and some may require different service priority.  In this deployment
  scenario, the operator can implement Outgoing Policies specified to a
  user's B4 or a group of B4s sharing the same policies.

2.5.2.  Incoming Policy

  Similar to the Outgoing Policy, an Incoming Policy may also include
  ACL and QoS settings.  The Outgoing Policy controls packets coming
  from the IPv4 network to the B4s.  Incoming packets are normally
  treated equally, so these policies are globally applied.  For
  example, an operator wants to use a predefined DSCP value to signal
  the IPv6 access network to apply certain traffic policies.  In this
  deployment scenario, the operator can configure the AFTR to mark the
  incoming packets with the predefined DSCP value.  This policy will
  apply to all incoming packets from the IPv4 network.

2.6.  AFTR Impacts on Accounting Process

  This section discusses IPv4 and IPv6 traffic accounting in the
  DS-Lite environment.  In a typical broadband access scenario (e.g.,
  DSL or Cable), the B4 is embedded in a Residential Gateway.  The edge
  router for the B4s in the provider's network is an IPv6 edge router.
  The edge router is usually responsible for IPv6 accounting and the
  user management functions such as authentication, authorization, and
  accounting (AAA).  However, given the fact that IPv4 traffic is
  encapsulated in an IPv6 packet at the B4 and only decapsulated at the
  AFTR, the edge router will require additional functionality to
  associate IPv4 accounting information to the B4 IPv6 address.  If
  DS-Lite is the only application using the IPv4-in-IPv6 protocol in
  the IPv6 access network, the operator can configure the edge router
  to check the IPv6 Next Header field in the IPv6 header, identify the
  protocol type (i.e., 0x04), and collect IPv4 accounting information.

  Alternatively, the AFTR may perform accounting for IPv4 traffic.
  However, operators must be aware that this will introduce some
  challenges, especially in DSL deployment.  In DSL deployment, the AAA
  transaction normally happens between the edge router (i.e., Broadband
  Network Gateway) and AAA server.  [RFC6333] does not require the AFTR
  to interact with the AAA server or edge router.  Thus, the AFTR may
  not have the AAA parameters (e.g., Account Session ID) associated
  with B4s to generate an IPv4 accounting record.  IPv4 traffic
  accounting at the AFTR is not recommended when the AAA parameters
  necessary to generate complete IPv4 accounting records are not
  available.  The accounting process at the AFTR is only necessary if
  the operator requires separating per-B4 accounting records for IPv4
  and IPv6 traffic.  If the per-B4 IPv6 accounting records, collected



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  by the edge router, are sufficient, then the additional complexity of
  enabling IPv4 accounting at the AFTR is not required.  It is
  important to notice that, since the IPv4 traffic is encapsulated in
  IPv6 packets, the data collected by the edge router for IPv6 traffic
  already contains the total amount of traffic (i.e., IPv4 and IPv6).

  Even if detailed accounting records collection for IPv4 traffic may
  not be required, it would be useful for an operator, in some
  scenarios, to have information that the edge router generates for the
  IPv6 traffic.  This information can be used to identify the AFTR who
  is handling the IPv4 traffic for that B4.  This can be achieved by
  adding additional information to the IPv6 accounting records.  For
  example, operators can use RADIUS attribute information specified in
  [RFC6519] or a new attribute to be specified in Internet Protocol
  Detailed Record (IPDR).

2.7.  Reliability Considerations of AFTR

  For robustness, reliability, and load distribution purposes,
  operators may deploy multiple AFTRs.  In such cases, the IPv6
  prefixes and algorithm to build the tunneling mechanisms configured
  on each of these AFTRs will be the same.  In [RFC6333], Appendix A.3
  mentions that High Availability (HA) is the operator's
  responsibility.  Since DS-Lite is a stateful mechanism, all
  requirements for load-balancing and failover mechanisms apply.  There
  are many ways to implement HA in a stateful mechanism; the most
  common are Cold Standby mode and Hot Standby mode.  More discussion
  on deploying these two modes for NAT can be found in [NAT-STANDBY].
  In Cold Standby mode, the AFTR states are not replicated from the
  Primary AFTR to the Backup AFTR.  When the Primary AFTR fails, all
  the existing established sessions will be flushed out.  The internal
  hosts are required to reestablish sessions with the external hosts.
  In Hot Standby mode, the session's states are replicated on-the-fly
  from the Primary AFTR to the Backup AFTR.  When the Primary AFTR
  fails, the Backup AFTR will take over all the existing established
  sessions.  In this mode, the internal hosts are not required to
  reestablish sessions with the external hosts.

  For operators, the decision to use Cold Standby mode or Hot Standby
  mode depends on the trade-off between capital cost and operational
  cost.  Cold Standby mode does not require a Backup Standby AFTR to
  synchronize session states.  This simplifies the operational model.
  When the Primary AFTR goes down, any AFTR with extra capacity can
  take over.  Hot Standby mode provides a smoother failover experience
  to users; the cost for the operators is more careful failover
  planning.  For most deployment scenarios, we believe that Cold
  Standby mode should be sufficient enough and is thus recommended.




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2.8.  Strategic Placement of AFTR

  In the DS-Lite environment, the AFTR is the logical next-hop router
  of the B4s to access the IPv4 network, so the placement of the AFTR
  will affect the traffic flows in the access network and overall
  network design.  In general, there are two placement models to deploy
  an AFTR.  Model One deploys the AFTR at the edge of the network to
  cover a small region.  Model Two deploys the AFTR at the core of the
  network to cover a large region.

  When an operator considers where to deploy the AFTR, the operator
  must make trade-offs.  The AFTR in Model One serves fewer B4s; thus,
  it requires a less powerful AFTR.  Moreover, the traffic flows are
  more evenly distributed to the AFTRs.  However, it requires deploying
  more AFTRs to cover the entire network.  Often, the operation cost
  increases proportionally with the amount of network equipment.

  The AFTR in Model Two covers a larger area; thus, it serves more B4s.
  The operator could deploy only a few AFTRs to support the entire user
  base.  However, this model requires a more powerful AFTR to sustain
  the load at peak hours.  Since the AFTR would support B4s from
  different regions, the AFTR would be deployed closer to the core
  network.

  DS-Lite framework can be incrementally deployed.  An operator may
  consider starting with Model Two.  When the demand increases, the
  operator can push the AFTR closer to the edge, which would
  effectively become Model One.

2.9.  AFTR Considerations for Geographically Aware Services

  By centralizing public IPv4 addresses in the AFTR, remote services
  can no longer rely on an IPv4 address and IPv4 routing information to
  derive a host's geographical information.  For example, the IPv6
  access network and the AFTR may be in two different cities.  If the
  remote services rely on the IPv4 address to locate a host, they may
  have thought the host was in a different city.  [RFC6269] Section 7
  describes the problem in more detail.  Applications could explicitly
  ask users to enter location information, such as postal code or
  telephone number, before offering geographical service.  In contrast,
  applications could use HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)
  [RFC5985] to get the location information from the Location
  Information Server and give this information to the remote peer.
  [RFC6280] describes an architecture to enable location-based
  services.  However, to mitigate the impact, we recommend that
  operators deploy the AFTR as close to B4s as possible.





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2.10.  Impacts on QoS Policy

  This section describes the application of [RFC2983] to the DS-Lite
  deployment model.  Operators must ensure that the QoS policy that is
  in place operates properly within the DS-Lite deployment.  In this
  regard, operators commonly use DSCP [RFC2475] to classify and
  prioritize different types of traffic in their networks.  DS-Lite
  tunnel can be seen as a particular case of uniform conceptual tunnel
  model, as described in Section 3.1 of [RFC2983].  The uniform model
  views an IP tunnel only as a necessary mechanism to forward traffic
  to its destination: the tunnel has no significant impact on traffic
  conditioning.  In this model, any packet has exactly one DSCP field
  that is used for traffic conditioning at any point, and it is the
  field in the outermost IP header.  In the DS-Lite model, this is the
  Traffic Class field in the IPv6 header.  According to [RFC2983],
  implementations of this model copy the DSCP value to the outer IP
  header at encapsulation and copy the outer header's DSCP value to the
  inner IP header at decapsulation.

  Operators should use this model by provisioning the network such that
  the AFTR copies the DSCP value in the IPv4 header to the Traffic
  Class field in the IPv6 header, after the encapsulation for the
  downstream traffic.  Similarly, the B4 copies the DSCP value in the
  IPv4 header to the Traffic Class field to the IPv6 header, after the
  encapsulation for the upstream traffic.  Traffic identification and
  classification can be done by examining the outer IPv6 header in the
  IPv6 access network.

2.11.  Port Forwarding Considerations

  Some applications behind the B4 require the B4 to accept incoming
  requests.  If the remote application wants to communicate to the
  application behind the B4, the remote application must know both the
  NAT-ed IPv4 address used by the B4 and the IPv4 destination port.
  Some applications use Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) (e.g., popular
  gaming consoles) or Interactive Community Establishment (ICE)
  [RFC5245] to request incoming ports.  Some applications rely on
  Application Level Gateway (ALG) or manual port configuration to
  reserve a port in the NAT.  For the DS-Lite deployment scenario
  whereby the B4 does not own a full IPv4 address, the operator will
  manage port-forwarding in the serving AFTR.  Operators may use Port
  Control Protocol (PCP) [PCP-BASE] as guidance to provide port
  forwarding service.  Operators will deploy PCP client in the B4s.
  PCP permits the PCP server to be deployed in a stand-alone server.
  However, we recommend that operators consider deploying the PCP
  server in the AFTR.  This will ease the overhead to design a global
  configuration for the PCP server for many AFTRs because each PCP
  server will be dedicated to the collocated AFTR.



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  When sharing an IPv4 address, not all of the ports are available to a
  B4.  Some restricted ports (i.e., 0-1023) are well known such as TCP
  port 25 and 80.  Many users may want to be provisioned with the
  restricted ports.  For fairness, we recommend that operators
  configure the AFTR and not allocate the restricted ports to regular
  DS-Lite B4s.  This operation model ensures that DS-Lite B4s will have
  uniform configuration, which can simplify provisioning and operation.
  For users who want to use the restricted ports, operators can
  consider provisioning a full IPv4 address to those users' B4s.  If an
  operator still wants to provision restricted ports to specific B4s,
  it may require implementing a static B4's configuration in the AFTR
  to match the B4's IPv6 address to the NAT rules.  Alternatively, the
  B4 may dynamically allocate the ports, and the AFTR authenticates the
  session's request using PCP [PCP-BASE].

2.12.  DS-Lite Tunnel Security

  [RFC6333], Section 11 describes security issues associated with the
  DS-Lite mechanism.  To restrict the service offered by the AFTR only
  to registered B4s, an operator can implement the Outgoing Policy on
  the AFTR's tunnel interface to accept only the IPv6 prefixes defined
  in the policy.  For static provisioning, the operator will need to
  know in advance the IPv6 prefixes provisioned to the B4s for the
  softwire in order to configure the policy.  To simplify operation,
  operators should configure the AFTRs in the same region with the same
  IPv6 prefixes' Outgoing Policy.  The AFTRs will accept both regular
  connections and failover connections from the B4s in the same service
  region.

2.13.  IPv6-Only Network Considerations

  In environments where the operator wants to deploy the AFTR in an
  IPv6-only network, the AFTR nodes may not have direct IPv4
  connectivity.  In this scenario, the operator extends the IPv6-only
  boundary to the border of the network and only the border routers
  have IPv4 connectivity.  For both scalability and performance
  purposes, the AFTR is located in the IPv6-only network closer to B4s.
  In this scenario, the AFTR has only IPv6 connectivity and must be
  able to send and receive IPv4 packets.  Enhancements to the DS-Lite
  AFTR are required to achieve this.  [DS-LITE] describes such issues
  and enhancements to DS-Lite in IPv6-only deployments.

3.  B4 Deployment Considerations

  In order to configure the IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnel, the B4 needs the IPv6
  address of the AFTR.  This IPv6 address can be configured using a
  variety of methods ranging from an out-of-band mechanism, manual
  configuration, and DHCPv6 option to RADIUS.  If an operator uses



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  DHCPv6 to provision the B4, the B4 must implement the DHCPv6 option
  defined in [RFC6334].  If an operator uses RADIUS to provision the
  B4, the B4 must implement [RFC6519].

3.1.  DNS Deployment Considerations

  [RFC6333] recommends that the B4 send DNS queries to an external
  recursive resolver over IPv6.  The B4 should implement a proxy
  resolver that will proxy a DNS query from IPv4 transport to the DNS
  server in the IPv6 network.  [RFC6333] does not describe the DNS
  proxy behavior.  In deployment, the operator must ensure that the DNS
  proxy implementation must follow [RFC5625].  This is important
  especially for operators who have deployed, or will consider
  deploying, DNSSEC [RFC4035].

  Some operators may want to give hosts behind the B4 an IPv4 address
  of an external DNS recursive resolver.  The B4 will treat the DNS
  packets as normal IP packets and forward them over the softwire.
  Note that there is no effective way to provision an IPv4 DNS address
  to the B4 over IPv6; operators who use this DNS deployment model must
  be aware that how to provision an IPv4 DNS address over an IPv6
  network is undefined, so it will introduce additional complexity in
  B4 provisioning.  Moreover, this will increase the load to the AFTR
  by creating entries in the NAT table for DNS sessions.  Operators may
  deploy a local DNS caching resolver in the AFTR to reduce the load in
  the NAT table.  Nonetheless, this DNS model is not covered in
  [RFC6333] and is not recommended.

3.2.  IPv4 Service Monitoring

3.2.1.  B4 Remote Management

  B4 is connected to the IPv6 access network to offer IPv4 services.
  When users experience IPv4 connectivity issues, operators must be
  able to remotely access (e.g., TR-069) the B4 to verify its
  configuration and status.  Operators should access B4s using native
  IPv6.  Operators should not access B4 over the softwire.

3.2.2.  IPv4 Connectivity Check

  The DS-Lite framework provides IPv4 services over the IPv6 access
  network.  Operators and users must be able to check the IPv4
  connectivity from the B4 to its AFTR using ping and IPv4 traceroute.
  The AFTR should be configured with an IPv4 address to enable a PING
  test and a Traceroute test.  Operators should assign the same IPv4
  address (e.g., 192.0.0.2/32 [RFC6333]) to all AFTRs.  IANA has
  allocated the 192.0.0.0/29 network prefix to provide IPv4 addresses
  for this purpose [RFC6333].



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4.  Security Considerations

  This document does not present any new security issues.  [RFC6333]
  discusses DS-Lite related security issues.

5.  Acknowledgements

  Thanks to Mr. Nejc Skoberne and Dr. Maoke Chen for their thorough
  review and helpful comments.  We also want to thank Mr. Hu Jie for
  sharing his DS-Lite deployment experience with us.  He gave us
  recommendations of what his company learned while testing DS-Lite in
  the production network.

6.  References

6.1.  Normative References

  [RFC6333]      Durand, A., Droms, R., Woodyatt, J., and Y. Lee,
                 "Dual-Stack Lite Broadband Deployments Following IPv4
                 Exhaustion", RFC 6333, August 2011.

  [RFC6334]      Hankins, D. and T. Mrugalski, "Dynamic Host
                 Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Option for
                 Dual-Stack Lite", RFC 6334, August 2011.

  [RFC6519]      Maglione, R. and A. Durand, "RADIUS Extensions for
                 Dual-Stack Lite", RFC 6519, February 2012.

6.2.  Informative References

  [DS-LITE]      Boucadair, M., Jacquenet, C., Grimault, J., Kassi-
                 Lahlou, M., Levis, P., Cheng, D., and Y. Lee,
                 "Deploying Dual-Stack Lite in IPv6 Network", Work in
                 Progress, April 2011.

  [NAT-REVEAL]   Boucadair, M., Touch, J., Levis, P., and R. Penno,
                 "Analysis of Solution Candidates to Reveal a Host
                 Identifier (HOST_ID) in Shared Address Deployments",
                 Work in Progress, March 2013.

  [NAT-STANDBY]  Xu, X., Boucadair, M., Lee, Y., and G. Chen,
                 "Redundancy Requirements and Framework for Stateful
                 Network Address Translators (NAT)", Work in Progress,
                 October 2010.

  [PCP-BASE]     Wing, D., Cheshire, S., Boucadair, M., Penno, R., and
                 P. Selkirk, "Port Control Protocol (PCP)", Work in
                 Progress, November 2012.



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  [RFC2473]      Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Generic Packet Tunneling in
                 IPv6 Specification", RFC 2473, December 1998.

  [RFC2475]      Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang,
                 Z., and W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated
                 Services", RFC 2475, December 1998.

  [RFC2983]      Black, D., "Differentiated Services and Tunnels",
                 RFC 2983, October 2000.

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

  [RFC4035]      Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and
                 S. Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security
                 Extensions", RFC 4035, March 2005.

  [RFC5245]      Rosenberg, J., "Interactive Connectivity Establishment
                 (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT)
                 Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols", RFC 5245,
                 April 2010.

  [RFC5625]      Bellis, R., "DNS Proxy Implementation Guidelines",
                 BCP 152, RFC 5625, August 2009.

  [RFC5985]      Barnes, M., "HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD)",
                 RFC 5985, September 2010.

  [RFC6269]      Ford, M., Boucadair, M., Durand, A., Levis, P., and P.
                 Roberts, "Issues with IP Address Sharing", RFC 6269,
                 June 2011.

  [RFC6280]      Barnes, R., Lepinski, M., Cooper, A., Morris, J.,
                 Tschofenig, H., and H. Schulzrinne, "An Architecture
                 for Location and Location Privacy in Internet
                 Applications", BCP 160, RFC 6280, July 2011.

  [RFC6302]      Durand, A., Gashinsky, I., Lee, D., and S. Sheppard,
                 "Logging Recommendations for Internet-Facing Servers",
                 BCP 162, RFC 6302, June 2011.










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Authors' Addresses

  Yiu L. Lee
  Comcast
  One Comcast Center
  Philadelphia, PA  19103
  U.S.A.

  EMail: [email protected]
  URI:   http://www.comcast.com


  Roberta Maglione
  Cisco Systems
  181 Bay Street
  Toronto, ON  M5J 2T3
  Canada

  EMail: [email protected]


  Carl Williams
  MCSR Labs
  U.S.A.

  EMail: [email protected]


  Christian Jacquenet
  France Telecom
  Rennes
  France

  EMail: [email protected]


  Mohamed Boucadair
  France Telecom
  Rennes
  France

  EMail: [email protected]









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