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Danny Mayer wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Jari Arkko wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> o Whether we actually want to define a secure approach to
>>> proxies. Here I'd personally be OK even with no security
>>> for proxying, as long as the above issues were corrected.
>>> But you could also argue the other way; the IETF usually
>>> does require mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms
>>> to go with its protocols.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd be a bit concerned if I could, for example, walk into
>> my neighbour's apartment, hop to his wireless LAN, and
>> find myself getting proxy ND from a third neighbour I'd
>> never met, without some sort of AAA process. But for
>> an Experimental draft we can't really insist on a solution -
>> for me the question is whether the warnings are sufficient.
>>
>>    Brian
>>
> You don't even need to leave your apartment to do that. It's scary how
> insecure people's wireless LAN setups are.

Your 'insecure' is some people's 'plug and play' for their visitors.

While I don't always agree with it, it's not clear it's not an equally
desirable outcome.

Joe
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