> >>First, it turns out that return routability _is_ strong enough to > >>correspond roughly to the (current) security of the IPv6 Internet. > > > > I don't doubt that. But then why are we worrying about MitM attacks > > in one case and not in the other? > > Are you asking why we worry about MitM for RR but not for the stronger > cases?
no, I'm saying that if all we're trying to do with MIPv6 is equal the current security of the IPv6 internet, why do we care about MitM? Because the current IPv6 internet is clearly vulnerable to connection hijacking, impersonation, etc. via MitM. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
