Hi, Tony, >> I have a feeling the idea that IPv6 add something to security might >> be linked back to the IPsec focus real early on in the IPv6 era, >> like years and years ago. Why it happen or how, I don't really >> know. > > How it happened? --- Ever heard of NAT? At the time IPsec through > nat did not widely exist, and even implementations that figured out > udp had the problem that the cert often included a 1918 address which > didn't match the packet header source address. It is easy to forget > context when bashing something after the fact...
Sorry, but I don't follow. If the problem with widespread deployment of IPsec was NAT traversal, why didn't we see widespread IPsec deployment (for the general case) e.g. once RFC 3948 was published? And: Do you expect IPsec deplyment to increase dramatically as IPv6 gets deployed? Thanks! Kind regards, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
