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<title>Diameter NAT Control Application</title>

<author initials='F' surname='Brockners' fullname='Frank Brockners'>
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<author initials='C' surname='Systems' fullname='Cisco Systems'>
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<author initials='C' surname='Systems' fullname='Cisco  Systems'>
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<date month='March' day='3' year='2009' />

<abstract><t>This document describes the framework, messages, and procedures for the Diameter NAT Control Application (DNCA), allowing for per- endpoint control of large scale NAT devices, which are put in place to cope with IPv4-address space completion.  The Diameter NAT Control Application allows external devices to configure and manage a Large Scale NAT (LSN) device - expanding the existing Diameter-based AAA and policy control capabilities with a NAT control component. These external devices can be network elements in the data plane such as a Network Access Server (NAS), or can be more centralized control plane devices such as AAA-servers. DNCA establishes a context to commonly identify and manage endpoints on a gateway or server, and a large scale NAT device. This includes, for example, the control of the total number of NAT-bindings allowed or the allocation of a specific NAT-binding for a particular endpoint. In addition, it allows large scale NAT devices to provide information relevant to accounting purposes.</t></abstract>

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