> For clarification, is your comment just a positive remark about SCTP,
> or is it suggesting that SCTP could work without hosts knowing their
> global addresses.
> (If it is the former, it doesn't go against what I wrote; if it is the
> latter, I don't see how it can work.)

SCTP's ASCONF (Address Configuration Change) allows using 0 (::0, 0.0.0.0) 
to handle that case, as briefly described on page 6 of RFC5061 and page 17 
of draft-ietf-behave-sctpnat-03.

-d

> Regards,
> RD
> 
> Le 2 nov. 2010 à 16:05, james woodyatt a écrit :
> >> On Nov 2, 2010, at 01:25 , Rémi Després wrote:
> >> ...
> >> SCTP depends on hosts knowing their global addresses, and the same
> holds for SHIM6.
> >> Both are therefore incompatible with all variants of NAT66 as
> specified today.
> >
> > Actually, SCTP uses IP addresses in pretty much the same way as TCP
> and other connection-oriented transport protocols.  From the
> perspective of a NAT, however, the requirements to maintain state for
> SCTP are quite a bit simpler than for TCP and other protocols. You only
> need to hold onto the interior and exterior IP addresses of the
> association endpoints, unified by the verification tag for each
> association.  No port translation is necessary-- it's not even helpful
> for the purposes of address amplification.  The addresses are amplified
> in the 32-bit verification tag, not the port numbers.
> 
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