Eric, Take your argument to the people opposing the Hain/Templin draft, because your point is clearly made in that document.
Brian EricLKlein wrote: > > Margaret.Wasserman wrote > > > I have been speaking to different > > > companies here in Israel, and the basic answer is that if I > > > can not have site locals and NAT then I will not move to IPv6. > > > If these people are happy with IPv4 NAT, why would they want > > to move to IPv6? They couldn't need more address space (net 10 > > is huge), they obviously don't care about peer-to-peer or > > end-to-end connectivity outside their organization, I can't > > imagine that they want to deploy any IPv6-only applications > > or services... > > Margret, you are correct. The way that one network person put it "if there > are no local addresses then we will just stay with IPv4 for our secure > applications, until it is no longer supported." > > This is not the first time that I have heard that someone was willing to > skip IPv6 because of the percieved pain and security threat that standards > compliance would entail. But then again these are all people that take > security and network administration very personal and very seriously, and > the idea of having the accounts recievable (or worse payable) computer with > a globaly reachable address scares them to heck. > > To be honest I stated these concerns back in the spring, and I still haven't > seen anything that would work to convince me that this is not what we as a > WG are proposing. If someone converts their existing network to a globaly > unique address range then what is responsible for filtering all of the > critical addresses from sending or recieving packets from the network over > the network Interent router? I see this as being moved from the protocol > level to that of the network technician, who now needs to explicitly deny > individual addresses (or ranges) rather and explicityl allow the permited > ranges. > > Eric > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM NEW ADDRESS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PLEASE UPDATE ADDRESS BOOK -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
