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Re: Last Call: RFC 6346 successful: moving to Proposed Standard

2014-12-10 20:45:17
A+P is for home gateways, not for servers.   That said, most uses of A+P 
exclude the well-known port range for assignment to home gateways, so if for 
some strange reason you wanted to do A+P with servers, you could allocate those 
ranges to servers.   This is not a common or expected use of A+P, however, so 
this is kind of moot.   The essential point of A+P is that it creates 
deterministic mappings, which makes carrier-grade NAT less painful and more 
predictable.   It really only makes sense in the context of a dual-stack 
transition model, where you would always prefer IPv6 for flows between hosts 
that support it.


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