[IP] more on IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready for consumption
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Andrew W. Donoho" <awd@xxxxxxx>
Date: November 28, 2005 5:10:33 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready
for consumption
For IP:
On Nov 28, 2005, at 13:37, Joab Jackson wrote:
From: Joab Jackson <jjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 28, 2005 1:56:02 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] more on IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is
ready for consumption
The idea of having 250 separate devices in my home sitting on the
open
Internet makes me shudder - this would be a security nightmare!
The issue of the draining effect NAT has on IPv6 used to be
quite the hot button issue for the IETF. It raises some interesting
questions about the viability of an end-to-end Internet and even about
the IETF itself. I covered this awhile back for NewsForge:
The debate about NAT obscures the real issue - that there are
legitimate reasons to assert policies for net access at
organizational boundaries. Yes, we want the internet architecture to
be end to end. Yet, we also want to keep interlopers out of our
houses and businesses. I am about to start experimenting with IPv6
tunneled through IPv4. Even though I won't need NAT, I will keep the
firewall rules in place. I am setting a policy at the boundary to my
house.
There is also the enumeration problem. An open end to end IPv6
network is ripe for other exploits. Do we want people to be able to
probe my home network to find out that I have a fancy new plasma TV?
Or worse, the terrorist/war scenario where 10,000 plus smart ovens
are simultaneously set to repeatedly "clean" themselves until they
either crash the power grid or burn up the homes of many people when
the insulation fails?
Andrew
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