RFC 7857 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2016

Updates to Network Address Translation Behavioral Requirements

Overview

RFC 7857, “Updates to Network Address Translation Behavioral Requirements”, is a Best Current Practice document published in April 2016 by R. Penno, S. Perreault, M. Boucadair, S. Sivakumar, K. Naito. It updates RFC 4787, RFC 5382, RFC 5508. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document clarifies and updates several requirements of RFCs 4787, 5382, and 5508 based on operational and development experience. The focus of this document is Network Address Translation from IPv4 to IPv4 (NAT44).

This document updates RFCs 4787, 5382, and 5508.

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What “Best Current Practice” means

Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.

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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC updates
RFC 4787 RFC 5382 RFC 5508
Other RFCs from 2016

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