Please take this thread off ipng! Mat. > -----Original Message----- > From: Vishwanathan K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 September 2001 16:01 > To: Greg Maxwell > Cc: Wang Hui; Matti Aarnio; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Current network/Internet is so weak...in face of > Nimda-likeworms > > > > > > > Security policies can also be applied to the hosts within > the network. But ultimately, the gateways > > > are responsible for security of its internal network. > > obviously 'virus-control' was not being implied here !! > I was referring to more of things like packet filtering, > firewalling and IP security policies. which i > agree have nothing to do with detecting malicious code. > > > Are are obviously from a different universe then the rest > of us. In our > > universe we us an incredibly flexible protocol called IP > that is smart > > enough to know that policy can only be truly effectively done on the > > end-node and thus does it on the end node. > > > > I don't know how you would expect a router to know that an > application is > > requesting a file called README.EML much less that it > contains malicious > > code and that IE5 will execute it without it's users > knowledge, except as > > an after the fact clean-up measure initated by humans. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
