On 3/29/12 21:18 , Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Front posting: I think we are using "walled garden" to mean several
> things and that is confusing.
> 
> In my mind it refers to a captive customer scenario where a service
> provider is intentionally limiting a customer's access to the global
> Internet or (by playing DNS and/or HTTP proxy tricks) presenting a
> distorted view of the the global Internet.
> 
> This becomes especially obnoxious if the customer has multiple
> providers that attempt to enforce different walled gardens. But
> that's a MIF issue, I think.
> 
> That is quite different from stating that a customer network should
> be separated from the Internet by a security fence of some kind and
> may also need a local namespace. I thought that was normally called
> an intranet.

when you have two default routes, but the graph exposed by each has an
overlapping but incomplete set of vertices you don't have enough
information to to determine which one to select for a given destination.
flipping a coin works fine (in general) for the overlapping set.

> Regards
>    Brian Carpenter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2012-03-30 00:48, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian E Carpenter <Brian> writes:
>>     >> I much prefer to engineer for walled gardens using globally
>>     >> unique addresses GUA (not globally reachable) ("GUAnGR"?), than
>>     >> for NAT66.
>>     >> 
>>     >> I also want to point out that the experience with IPv4 "walled
>>     >> gardens" usually involves either operators squatting on
>>     >> "unallocated" address spaces, or enterprises running non-unique
>>     >> RFC1918 networks with VPNs/Remote-Access.  None of these things
>>     >> are going away.
>>     >> 
>>     >> The example of "Joe's web cam", and whether we should use: -
>>     >> ULA/GUA in DNS with views (what about caches and DNSSEC?)  or -
>>     >> ULA+GUA in DNS (multiple AAAA) plus Happy Eyeballs
>>     >> 
>>     >> is pertinent.  Because the ULA is a walled garden.  And if it's
>>     >> really "Joes' office webcam via VPN", then the Enterprise is a
>>     >> walled garden.
>>
>>     Brian> But neither of those are "captive customers" in the sense
>>     Brian> that WAP threatened or that some carriers still seem to be
>>     Brian> hoping for.
>>
>> So, is the term "walled garden" inappropriate then, and we are arguing
>> about nothing?
>>
>> We aren't talking about captive customers.  The specific *technical*
>> requirement is actually:
>>          You can't *there* if you start with that source IP.
>> or:      If you want to go *there*, you must start from *here*
>> or:      Ingress filtering rules
>>
>> (with allusions to: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WouldntStartFromHere )
>>
>>
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