RFC 8683: Additional Deployment Guidelines for NAT64/464XLAT in Operator and Enterprise Networks

This document describes how Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers (NAT64) (including 464XLAT) can be deployed in an IPv6…

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Outgoing relationships (34 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Normative reference — RFC 5389: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normative reference — RFC 6146: Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
Normative reference — RFC 5766: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normative reference — RFC 8484: DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)
Normative reference — RFC 8445: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal
Normative reference — RFC 6052: IPv6 Addressing of IPv4/IPv6 Translators
Normative reference — RFC 6887: Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Normative reference — RFC 8415: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 6147: DNS64: DNS Extensions for Network Address Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
Normative reference — RFC 6144: Framework for IPv4/IPv6 Translation
Normative reference — RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
Normative reference — RFC 6877: 464XLAT: Combination of Stateful and Stateless Translation
Normative reference — RFC 5625: DNS Proxy Implementation Guidelines
Normative reference — RFC 7050: Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis
Normative reference — RFC 7915: IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 6535: Dual-Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-Host" (BIH)
Normative reference — RFC 7757: Explicit Address Mappings for Stateless IP/ICMP Translation
Normative reference — RFC 7225: Discovering NAT64 IPv6 Prefixes Using the Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Normative reference — RFC 8273: Unique IPv6 Prefix per Host
Normative reference — RFC 8375: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
Informative reference — RFC 7858: Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Informative reference — RFC 8094: DNS over Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Informative reference — RFC 6889: Analysis of Stateful 64 Translation
Informative reference — RFC 8219: Benchmarking Methodology for IPv6 Transition Technologies
Informative reference — RFC 6950: Architectural Considerations on Application Features in the DNS
Informative reference — RFC 7051: Analysis of Solution Proposals for Hosts to Learn NAT64 Prefix
Informative reference — RFC 7269: NAT64 Deployment Options and Experience
Informative reference — RFC 7755: SIIT-DC: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation for IPv6 Data Center Environments
Informative reference — RFC 7756: Stateless IP/ICMP Translation for IPv6 Internet Data Center Environments (SIIT-DC): Dual Translation Mode
Informative reference — RFC 7849: An IPv6 Profile for 3GPP Mobile Devices
Informative reference — RFC 8585: Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers to Support IPv4-as-a-Service

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9313: Pros and Cons of IPv6 Transition Technologies for IPv4-as-a-Service (IPv4aaS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9386: IPv6 Deployment Status