[e2e] Internet Draft and survey on P2P in the presence of NAT

[Bryan Ford]

Hi end2enders,

I have been working on collecting and consolidating information about making 
peer-to-peer applications work seamlessly with NAT (you know, that evil 
anti-end2end technology we all love to hate :)), and have just released the 
first version of an Internet Draft on which I would be grateful to hear your 
comments:

	http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~baford/nat/draft-ford-natp2p-00.txt

In addition, to get a better sense of the compatibility of these techniques 
with widely deployed NATs, I wrote a short NAT tester program that basically 
works like a simple STUN (rfc3489) client and outputs relevant stats, and a 
friend set up an on-line database to collect results.  If you are behind or 
have access to a NAT that isn't already listed in the database, we'd greatly 
appreciate if you could run the client and enter the results you get.  The 
program (source, Linux binary, FreeBSD binary) and database are at:

	http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~baford/nat/

Thanks for your time!
Bryan