Mike Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> And while it isn't a surmountable problem
>  
> 5. We are being forced to treat all of our IPv6 enabled protocols such
>    as FTP as encryption items by the U.S. export authorities because
>    the U.S. government thinks they must be since IPv6 "includes
>    security".  It's just plain silly since our IPv6 is no different
>    than our IPv4 - both get all their security from our IPsec which
>    is sold separately.  But we can't convince them otherwise because it 
>    has been mandated that all IPv6 nodes shall support IPsec.
>    We can sell our IPv6 code without any trace of IPsec save for a few
>    lines of interface code that are #ifdef'd out when IPsec isn't present
>    and yet our IPv6 stack and worse yet, all of the socket-layer apps
>    that support IPv6, are viewed as encryption items.  Good grief.

This sounds completely bogus to me. I've never heard of this problem
before. Who else has this problem?

Thomas

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