Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Keith Moore
Mark Andrews wrote: > > And if you stop thinking IPv6 == IPv4 + big addresses and > start thinking multiple IPv6 addresses including a ULA IPv6 > address + RFC 3484 you get local address stability without > needing a NAT. You use ULAs for internal communication and >

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Keith Moore
Joel M. Halpern wrote: > As far as I can tell, most of what is being asked for here has little, > if anything, to do with NAT. To paraphrase: > > If we are going to have firewalls which block incoming connections, > communication between entities behind such firewalls should still be > possible w

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
As far as I can tell, most of what is being asked for here has little, if anything, to do with NAT. To paraphrase: If we are going to have firewalls which block incoming connections, communication between entities behind such firewalls should still be possible without any "external" servers.

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread TJ
FWIW - I wholeheartedly agree with "If we're going to standardize NATs of any kind, they need to be defined in such a way that no "external" server is necessary - not to determine one's external IP address, nor to forward traffic between hosts that are all behind NATs, nor to maintain state in the

New boilerplate (was: Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-igoe-secsh-aes-gcm-00)

2008-11-26 Thread Doug Ewell
Ben Campbell wrote: --Don't forget the new boilerplate, depending on the timing of publication I submitted a draft earlier today and (reluctantly) had to settle for the old boilerplate, because: (a) xml2rfc doesn't yet support the new boilerplate, and (b) the official "Legal Provisions" d

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Ted Hardie
At 6:07 PM -0800 11/25/08, David Conrad wrote: >Tony, > >On Nov 25, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Tony Hain wrote: >> Either way the >> app developers will have to rely on topology awareness crutches to >> deal with >> the resulting nonsense. > >Stuff they presumably already have to deal with because they'd l

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Mo rris writes: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > If your OS requires a reboot when you renumber get a real OS. > > If your apps require that they restart when you renumber get > > your apps fixed. > > I fail to understand how an

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Tony Hain
David Morris wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > If your OS requires a reboot when you renumber get a real OS. > > If your apps require that they restart when you renumber get > > your apps fixed. > > I fail to understand how an app such as ssh can maintain a s

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread David Conrad
On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:05 AM, John C Klensin wrote: I also assume those clients will be performing validation against a signed root zone, Sure, if they configure their trust anchor according to https://ns.iana.org/dnssec/status.html (There are other testbeds too, but I don't recall where to d

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russ Housley writes: > I have been approached about a plenary experiment regarding > DNSSEC. The idea is for everyone to try using DNSSEC-enabled clients > during the plenary session. I like the idea. What do others think? > > Russ > > ___

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread David Morris
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > > If your OS requires a reboot when you renumber get a real OS. > If your apps require that they restart when you renumber get > your apps fixed. I fail to understand how an app such as ssh can maintain a secure connection in the face

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] om>, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > Eric, > > The problem here is that you assume that the IETF has decision power > that can magic away NAT66. Clearly it did not for NAT44 and will not for > NAT66. > > So the real

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread Ron Bonica
+1 John C Klensin wrote: > > --On Wednesday, 26 November, 2008 10:50 -0500 Russ Housley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have been approached about a plenary experiment regarding >> DNSSEC. The idea is for everyone to try using DNSSEC-enabled >> clients during the plenary session. I like th

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Keith Moore
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > Could we agree on a consensus point that: > > 'Any application developer who designs a protocol on the assumption it > will not be subject to NAT66 may be disappointed' I think it would be far more constructive to tell application developers what they _can_ assume.

Re: secdir review of draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-06

2008-11-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam, I agree with Russ. I think the clearest possible result is the one we achieved in the case appended below, but that required quite some work in the absence of a well-defined procedure, even without there being an independent submission to synchronize. I think the draft makes such cases easier

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:50:56AM -0500, Russ Housley wrote: > I have been approached about a plenary experiment regarding > DNSSEC. The idea is for everyone to try using DNSSEC-enabled clients > during the plenary session. I like the idea. What do others think? > > Russ > nifty! jck shar

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Margaret Wasserman
On Nov 26, 2008, at 12:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, I think getting renumbering right and getting it deployed is an essential step in minimizing the use of NAT66. This seems to ignore the fact that we already have a widely deployed solution to site renumbering: NAT. IPv4

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - > From: "james woodyatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Behave WG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:34 PM > Subject: Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to > applicationdevelopers ... > The basic problem with NAT66 is that it introduces the possi

Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-mpls-te-scaling-analysis-03

2008-11-26 Thread Adrian Farrel
Hi Ben, Oops, I messed up the Gen-ART review boilerplate. Please mentally insert the following text at the top of my review: I think we'll let you off just this once. Document: draft-ietf-mpls-te-scaling-analysis-03 Reviewer: Ben Campbell Review Date: 2008-11-25 IETF LC End Date: 2008-11-3

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 26 November, 2008 10:50 -0500 Russ Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been approached about a plenary experiment regarding > DNSSEC. The idea is for everyone to try using DNSSEC-enabled > clients during the plenary session. I like the idea. What do > others think? I

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact toapplicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Ned raises one firewall concern: they block applications that should work. I have another concern: many are completely insecure as configured. It is not completely unusual to find a $200,000 firewall configuration that could be replaced with an ethernet patch cable. I have seen it: some consult

Re: secdir review of draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-06

2008-11-26 Thread Russ Housley
Sam: That said, I'm puzzled by the continued inclusion of "rejected alternative bypass" as a reason to delay publication. In section 4, this document proposes that readers could be confused by the order of publication of documents. At the same time, this document is removing the mandatory IESG

Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread Russ Housley
I have been approached about a plenary experiment regarding DNSSEC. The idea is for everyone to try using DNSSEC-enabled clients during the plenary session. I like the idea. What do others think? Russ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://ww

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread ned+ietf
> The problem here is that you assume that the IETF has decision power that can > magic away NAT66. Clearly it did not for NAT44 and will not for NAT66. I really hope you aren't correct about this, but I fear you are. > So the real question for App designers is: > 1) Should they design protoco

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I don't quite understand what you men by this. My internal DNS for the house does not reveal the existence of any of the machines to the outside world. Multiple horizons have been a feature of DNS for decades now. The only thing global about DNS is that there is only one consensus holder of a

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Margaret Wasserman
While most of the discussion about killing NAT66 is happening on the IETF list, we have a much more constructive discussion going on in behave regarding how to define an IPv6 NAT that will meet the needs of network administrators and end-users, while being less destructive to the Internet

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Keith More writes: >I don't think so in either case. The reason I don't think so is that I >suspect the NAT traversal problem is really a firewall traversal problem >in disguise. Absolutely, and that is why there needs to be a permissions system that allows effective decisions to be made wit

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Eric, The problem here is that you assume that the IETF has decision power that can magic away NAT66. Clearly it did not for NAT44 and will not for NAT66. So the real question for App designers is: 1) Should they design protocols that assume no NAT66 2) Should they regard the assumption tha

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
The problem here is that the Behave group seems to have people who are making IETF wide policy. So that is why opponents of the behave position think that the appropriate forum is the IETF list. Behave can decide not to do a NAT66. But what they cannot do is to decide that NAT66 should be pro

RE: Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Could we agree on a consensus point that: 'Any application developer who designs a protocol on the assumption it will not be subject to NAT66 may be disappointed' I think that it is beyond rational argument to claim otherwise. Furthermore, if it is really the interests of application layer pr

secdir review of draft-raj-dhc-tftp-addr-option-04

2008-11-26 Thread Samuel Weiler
I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread james woodyatt
On Nov 25, 2008, at 15:11, Sam Hartman wrote: Keith, would the NAT-66 proposal plus some mechanism for a server inside the NAT to ask the NAT for its global address be sufficient to meet the needs described above? No. RFC 3424 is the IAB Considerations document covering that problem. I'm t

secdir review of draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-06

2008-11-26 Thread Samuel Weiler
I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like

The internet architecture

2008-11-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
[Behave dropped, this is an architectural level discussion. If we don't want this on ietf we should start a different forum] I don't think that this claim is right: "Promoters of NAT, particularly vendors, seem to have a two-valued view of the network in which inside is good and outside is evil

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Magnus Westerlund
Please, any input into this debate shall go to the behave list. People interested in this topic please subscribe to Behave. Regards Magnus Peter Dambier skrev: > Keith Moore wrote: > >> absolutely it's too onerous. why in the world should an application's >> deployability depend on the existe

Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-mpls-te-scaling-analysis-03

2008-11-26 Thread Ben Campbell
Oops, I messed up the Gen-ART review boilerplate. Please mentally insert the following text at the top of my review: I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.ht

Gen-ART LC Review of draft-igoe-secsh-aes-gcm-00

2008-11-26 Thread Ben Campbell
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-igoe-secs

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: David Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The architecture is _ALREADY_ broken. 66NAT is merely another symptom > of the underlying disease. Hey, that's what happens when you pick as 'the next generation of networking', "X.25 with a larger sequence number space" (or, for you youngste

RE: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-11-26 Thread michael.dillon
> Yeah, but we're trying to get rid of that stuff, or at least > considerably reduce the cost and complexity, because (among other > things) it presents a huge barrier to adoption of new multiparty apps. Promoters of NAT, particularly vendors, seem to have a two-valued view of the network in whic

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 25 nov 2008, at 23:10, Tony Hain wrote: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: ... But in any event, compared to the backflips through flaming hoops we have to do in IPv4, the asking a remote server what our source address looks like from the outside to make address based referrals work doesn't seem