RFC 5902: IAB Thoughts on IPv6 Network Address Translation

There has been much recent discussion on the topic of whether the IETF should develop standards for IPv6 Network Address Translators (NATs). This document…

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Outgoing relationships (9 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 5389: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 4380: Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through Network Address Translations (NATs)
Informative reference — RFC 2993: Architectural Implications of NAT
Informative reference — RFC 4864: Local Network Protection for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4924: Reflections on Internet Transparency
Informative reference — RFC 4948: Report from the IAB workshop on Unwanted Traffic March 9-10, 2006
Informative reference — RFC 5887: Renumbering Still Needs Work

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6748: Optional Advanced Deployment Scenarios for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol (ILNP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6296: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6629: Considerations on the Application of the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (Shim6)