White Paper Abstract:
IETF NGTrans working group defined several translation mechanisms to enable communications between IPv6-only and IPv4-only hosts. One such example is Network Address Translator-Protocol Translator (NAT-PT)—RFC 2766; network administrators already familiar with NAT may find it useful to insure the co-existence between hosts when native communication cannot be achieved. The application of each area must be well understood, as the protocol does not represent a generic mechanism that would be universally applicable.