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        RFC 3489

        Title:      STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol
                    (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs)
        Author(s):  J. Rosenberg, J. Weinberger, C. Huitema, R. Mahy
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       March 2003
        Mailbox:    jdrosen@dynamicsoft.com,
                    jweinberger@dynamicsoft.com,
                    huitema@microsoft.com, rohan@cisco.com
        Pages:      47
        Characters: 117562
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-midcom-stun-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3489.txt


Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network
Address Translators (NATs) (STUN) is a lightweight protocol that
allows applications to discover the presence and types of NATs and
firewalls between them and the public Internet.  It also provides the
ability for applications to determine the public Internet Protocol
(IP) addresses allocated to them by the NAT.  STUN works with many
existing NATs, and does not require any special behavior from them.
As a result, it allows a wide variety of applications to work through
existing NAT infrastructure.

This document is a product of the Middlebox Communication Working
Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
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