The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Analysis of Solution Candidates to Reveal a Host Identifier (HOST_ID) in Shared Address Deployments' (draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis-10.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Internet Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Ted Lemon. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-nat-reveal-analysis/ Technical Summary: This document analyzes a set of solution candidates to mitigate some of the issues encountered when address sharing is used. In particular, this document focuses on means to reveal a host identifier (HOST_ID) when a Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) or application proxies are involved in the path. This host identifier must be unique to each host under the same shared IP address. Working Group Summary: The working group had active discussion on the draft and the current text of the draft is representative of the consensus of the working group. In particular, as a result of WG consensus, this version of the draft does not make any recommendations as to a preferred solution among those analyzed. Document Quality: The document has received adequate review. The Document Shepherd has no concerns about the depth or breadth of these reviews. This document does not define a protocol. Hence there are no implementations of this document. Personnel: Who is the Document Shepherd? Who is the Responsible Area Director? Suresh Krishnan is the document shepherd. Brian Haberman is the responsible AD.
