On Oct 21, 2011 10:11 AM, "Howard, Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curtis Villamizar [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 12:20 PM
> > To: Howard, Lee
> > Cc: james woodyatt; [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [homenet] Homenet Architecture & Interim Meeting
> >
> >
> > In message
> > <dcc302faa9fe5f4bba4dcad4656937791451334...@prvpexvs03.corp.twcabl
> > e.com>
> > "Howard, Lee" writes:
> >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of
> > james
> > > > woodyatt
> > > > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 11:07 PM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [homenet] Homenet Architecture & Interim Meeting
> > > >
> > > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 19:45 , Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > All of this is only true for IPv4 but not for IPv6.
> > > >
> > > > I wasn't talking about IPv4 at all.  My comments are relevant in a
world entirely
> > comprising
> > > > IPv6-only service providers.  The IPv6 Internet will be saddled with
all of the problems
> > of
> > > > the IPv4 Internet with respect to devices on homenets having to beg
the gateways to
> > allow
> > > > inbound packets from arbitrary remote destinations.  It has nothing
to do with NAT,
> > and
> > > > everything to do with firewalls and stateful filters.
> > >
> > > s/beg/authorize
> >
> >
> >
> > That response seems to be confirming the problem.
> >
> > The customer should not need the ISP to authorize inbound traffic.
> > Otherwise the service should not be called an "Internet" service.  It
> > is a service providing only limited Internet connectivity.
>
> Perhaps I misunderstood the scenario.
> I would have the sentence read:
> "Devices on homenets have to authorize gateways to allow inbound packets
> from arbitrary remote destinations."
>
> Hosts can set their own security policy.  If it's "send me everything," it
> can signal a firewall (using e.g. PCP) to allow everything.  If it's "do
not call,"
> it can signal a firewall (using e.g. PCP) to deny anything not explicitly
> allowed.
>
> I do not adhere to "default permit" as a security principle.
>

Then you also do not care for supporting the e2e principle, and I thought I
heard people mumble e2w  was a good thing at the start of homenet.

I am in the camp the host should be strong and smart and networks should be
simple and fast.

Cb

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> > Curtis
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