Re: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Haberman
Mohacsi Janos wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 2004-08-05, at 02.06, Tony Hain wrote: The IETF will never resolve the tension between the network administrator and the system administrator. That is a local CIO function in each organization. It is reasonable for the security

Re: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-05 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 2004-08-05, at 02.06, Tony Hain wrote: The IETF will never resolve the tension between the network administrator and the system administrator. That is a local CIO function in each organization. It is reasonable for the security considerations sectio

Re: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-04 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-08-05, at 02.06, Tony Hain wrote: > The IETF will never resolve the tension between the network > administrator > and the system administrator. That is a local CIO function in each > organization. It is reasonable for the security considerat

RE: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-04 Thread Tony Hain
Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > ... > > That being said, the draft makes a good point: the privacy protections > > are mostly effective when the network is large, or when the prefix > > changes. The current RFC 3041 is adequate in large networks, but does > > not take prefix changes in considerations.

Re: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-01 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian, On 2004-08-02, at 00.31, Christian Huitema wrote: >>But I assume that also would need consensus on the draft..:-) >> >> => of course (but I did never get objections :-). > > For the record, I do not agree with the conclusions

RE: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-01 Thread Christian Huitema
> => I agree but there is still no new work on the RFC3041bis... The proper place for these considerations is indeed the security consideration section of RFC3041bis. >But I assume that also would need consensus on the draft..:-) > > => of course (but I did never get objections :-). For t

Re: Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-08-01 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Some comments : site-local? => oops, I should have removed it some months ago (:-). > 3. "In-Prefix" Source Addresses Spoofing > > Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks are a variant of > Denial of Service attacks where the a

Comments on draft-dupont-ipv6-rfc3051harmful-05.txt

2004-07-31 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some comments : > 1. Introduction [...] > Interface identifiers are used in the stateless address > autoconfiguration [4] to create link-local addresses (in all cases) > and to create global and site-local addresses (for hosts from > prefi