more on IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready for consumption

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Andrew W. Donoho" <awd () DDG com>
Date: November 28, 2005 5:10:33 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready  
for consumption

For IP:

On Nov 28, 2005, at 13:37, Joab Jackson wrote:

> From: Joab Jackson <jjackson () postnewsweektech com>
> Date: November 28, 2005 1:56:02 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: RE: [IP] more on IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is  
> ready for consumption
>
> > The idea of having 250 separate devices in my home sitting on the  
> > open
>
> > Internet makes me shudder - this would be a security nightmare!
>
>         The issue of the draining effect NAT has on IPv6 used to be
> quite the hot button issue for the IETF. It raises some interesting
> questions about the viability of an end-to-end Internet and even about
> the IETF itself. I covered this awhile back for NewsForge:



The debate about NAT obscures the real issue - that there are  
legitimate reasons to assert policies for net access at  
organizational boundaries. Yes, we want the internet architecture to  
be end to end. Yet, we also want to keep interlopers out of our  
houses and businesses. I am about to start experimenting with IPv6  
tunneled through IPv4. Even though I won't need NAT, I will keep the  
firewall rules in place. I am setting a policy at the boundary to my  
house.

There is also the enumeration problem. An open end to end IPv6  
network is ripe for other exploits. Do we want people to be able to  
probe my home network to find out that I have a fancy new plasma TV?  
Or worse, the terrorist/war scenario where 10,000 plus smart ovens  
are simultaneously set to repeatedly "clean" themselves until they  
either crash the power grid or burn up the homes of many people when  
the insulation fails?


Andrew

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