The IESG has approved the following document: - 'State of Peer-to-Peer(P2P) Communication Across Network Address Translators(NATs) ' <draft-ietf-behave-p2p-state-06.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-behave-p2p-state-06.txt Technical Summary This memo documents the various methods known to be in use by applications to establish direct UDP or TCP communication in the presence of Network Address Translators (NATs). Working Group Summary Agreeing on RFC3489 terminology (which is well known) versus RFC4787 terminology (which is more accurate but longer) involved some controversy. Consensus was to use RFC4787 terminology. Document Quality This document have had descent review in the WG. The techniques in this document are implemented in various software that traverses NATs. Personnel Document shepherd: Dan Wing, dwing@cisco.com Responsible AD: Magnus Westerlund, magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com Note to RFC Editor Please update the reference to RFC 3041 to RFC 4941. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
