Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-jennings-midcom-stun-results-00.txt]

Jonathan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
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Yutaka Takeda wrote:


> Although ICE does this job without a knowledge of NAT types, I feel
> it is good to have a standardized protocol to discover the types of 
> NAT. In fact, we would have not been able to come to this point 
> without the knowledge of NAT types and actual discovery tests, but in 
> this case, clarification for applicability limitation of the NAT type 
> discovery process and their reasons should be added to the document
> I suppose.

Such limitations are in there already. However, people are using these 
algorithms in any case and are trusting the results. I think, at the 
very least, that any nat detection or diagnostic usage should be totally 
removed from the main specification and described purely as a diagnostic 
tool.

-Jonathan R.


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