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Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Tue Dec 15 08:03:56 2009

From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20091215124954.GA22285@maya.aronius.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:33:04 +1030
To: Joakim Aronius <joakim@aronius.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On 15/12/2009, at 11:19 PM, Joakim Aronius wrote:

> So what you are saying is that ease of use and service availability is =
priority one. Then what exactly are the responsibilities of the ISP and =
CPE manufacturer when it comes to security? CPEs with WiFi usually comes =
with the advice to change password etc. Is it ok to build an =
infrastructure relying on UPnP, write a disclaimer, and let the end user =
handle eventual problems? (I assume it is...)

Hasn't essentially every ISP on the planet been doing that for years,=20
only without the disclaimer?

It's not like we're talking about creating UPnP from whole cloth.  We're
discussing a replacement of like-for-like, updating existing =
capabilities
to support IPv6.

  - mark

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