> -----Original Message-----
> From: teemu.savolai...@nokia.com [mailto:teemu.savolai...@nokia.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:14 PM
> To: dw...@cisco.com; satoru.matsush...@gmail.com; ietf@ietf.org
> Cc: softwi...@ietf.org; beh...@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [BEHAVE] Last Call: <draft-ietf-behave-v4v6-bih-06.txt>
> (Dual Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-Host" (BIH)) to Proposed Standard
> 
> > I believe the objection is against "non-deterministic translation",
> rather
> than
> > stateful versus stateless.  By non-deterministic, I mean that the
> subscriber's
> > equipment (e.g., CPE) cannot determine the mapping it will have on
> the
> > Internet.  A+P mechanisms are deterministic (including 4rd, Dual-IVI,
> and
> > draft-ymbk-aplus-p).
> >
> > A stateful CGN, as commonly deployed, is not deterministic.
> 
> I don't understand why that is significant enough factor for IETF to
> (not)
> recommend some double translation variants. I mean does existing
> applications work better if double translation is done in deterministic
> manner? 

Yes, it allows the CPE to implement an ALG -- if an application needs
an ALG (e.g., active-mode FTP).

-d

> One reasoning against double translation has been that it
> breaks
> some class of applications. Is it now so that some forms of double
> translation do not break applications while some others do?
> 
>       Teemu
> 

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