On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:06:47AM -0800, Tony Hain wrote: > On the subject of applications, the absolute BS about limiting the > application set to avoid an IPsec requirement is something that belongs > in a product development discussion, NOT a standards discussion. The one > point that should be clear is that over time the number of applications > used via wireless (cellular or otherwise) will grow, and that we can't > predict what they are, much less what they will need from the stack. To > that point, we MUST reiterate that ***ALL IPv6 IMPLEMENTATIONS MUST > INCLUDE SUPPORT FOR IPSEC***. If we relax that requirement, applications > will never be able to expect support, therefore will have to keep > inventing their own mechanisms. The only way to prevent new applications > from appearing on computing devices is to put the executable code in > non-rewritable, non-replaceable, rom. And require these devices to be tamper-proof ;-}.
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