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        RFC 3338
                                 
        Title:      Dual Stack Hosts Using "Bump-in-the-API" (BIA)
        Author(s):  S. Lee, M-K. Shin, Y-J. Kim, E. Nordmark,
                    A. Durand
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       October 2002
        Mailbox:    syl@pec.etri.re.kr, mkshin@pec.etri.re.kr,
                    yjkim@pec.etri.re.kr, Alain.Durand@sun.com,
                    erik.nordmark@sun.com
        Pages:      16
        Characters: 34480
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None
                                 
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ngtrans-bia-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3338.txt

This document specifies a mechanism of dual stack hosts using a
technique called "Bump-in-the-API"(BIA) which allows for the hosts to
communicate with other IPv6 hosts using existing IPv4 applications.
The goal of this mechanism is the same as that of the
Bump-in-the-stack mechanism, but this mechanism provides the
translation method between the IPv4 APIs and IPv6 APIs.  Thus, the
goal is simply achieved without IP header translation.

This document is a product of the Next Generation Transition Working
Group of the IETF.

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
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