The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Common requirements for Carrier Grade NATs (CGNs)' (draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-09.txt) as Best Current Practice This document is the product of the Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Wesley Eddy and Martin Stiemerling. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements/ Technical Summary This document defines common requirements for Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) Working Group Summary Consensus is strong, except for a split between some WG members wanting "SHOULD support bulk port allocation" (in order to reduce logging) and other WG members who think no recommendation should be made. So, the document merely describes the trade-offs in its Section 5. An IPR declaration exists against the document, https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1648. The actual claims are not available. At IETF82, consensus of the working group was to continue with publication of the document. Document Quality This is a requirements document, so there are not exactly implementations of it. Service providers are interested in it, and vendors are interested in supporting these requirements for that reason. Personnel The document shepherd is Dan Wing (dwing@cisco.com), and the responsible AD is Wesley Eddy (wes@mti-systems.com). RFC Editor Note Please change the REQ-7 requirement as indicated below: OLD: REQ-7: It is RECOMMENDED that a CGN have an "Endpoint-Independent NEW: REQ-7: It is RECOMMENDED that a CGN use an "Endpoint-Independent
