{"draft":"draft-ietf-pcp-base-29","doc_id":"RFC6887","title":"Port Control Protocol (PCP)","authors":["D. Wing, Ed.","S. Cheshire","M. Boucadair","R. Penno","P. Selkirk"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"88","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Port Control Protocol","abstract":"The Port Control Protocol allows an IPv6 or IPv4 host to control how\r\nincoming IPv6 or IPv4 packets are translated and forwarded by a\r\nNetwork Address Translator (NAT) or simple firewall, and also allows\r\na host to optimize its outgoing NAT keepalive messages.","pub_date":"April 2013","keywords":["NAT","Firewall"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC7488","RFC7652","RFC7843"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6887","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6887"}