Folks, After some roundabout attempts at clearing the discuss on draft-ietf-opsec-vpn-leakages the following text has been proposed by the IESG as a note on the document. It could proceed to the rfc editor queue with this text in place. We could also adjust the document accordingly, however at this point, the current position is farily hard won.
Thoughts would be appreciated. joel --- This document describes a problem of information leakage in VPN software and attributes that problem to the software's inability to deal with IPv6. We do not think this is an appropriate characterization of the problem. It is true that when a device supports more than one address family, the inability to apply policy to more than one address family on that device is a defect. Despite that, inadvertent or maliciously-induced information leakage may also occur due to the existence of any unencrypted interface allowed on the system, including the configuration of split tunnels in the VPN software itself. While there are some attacks that are unique to an IPv6 interface, the sort of information leakage described by this document is a general problem that is not unique to the situation of IPv6-unaware VPN software. We do not think this document sufficiently describes the general issue. ---
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