Document Action: 'Local Network Protection for IPv6' to Informational RFC

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Local Network Protection for IPv6 '
   <draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06.txt> as an Informational RFC

This document is the product of the IPv6 Operations Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are David Kessens and Dan Romascanu.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06.txt

Technical Summary

 Although there are many perceived benefits to Network Address
 Translation (NAT), its primary benefit of "amplifying" available
 address space is not needed in IPv6.  In addition to NAT's many
 serious disadvantages, there is a perception that other benefits
 exist, such as a variety of management and security attributes that
 could be useful for an Internet Protocol site.  IPv6 does not support
 NAT by design and this document shows how Network Architecture
 Protection (NAP) using IPv6 can provide the same or more benefits
 without the need for NAT.

Working Group Summary

 This document is a product of the v6ops working group.

Protocol Quality