On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Michel Py wrote:
There are some military applications where devices have no business talking to the outside world. Control devices or sensors on a water distribution system or a power grid are another good example. These devices have no business whatsoever accessing the public internet, and it might be a requirement that the devices themselves have support for public addresses removed.
Oh... the old argument that NAT/private address brings security... - Alain. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
