[171137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Apr 18 19:35:44 2014
In-Reply-To: <CF7719A2.50E1B%Lee@asgard.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:34:56 -0400
To: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org> wrote:
> On 4/17/14 11:51 AM, "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>>Also, I note your draft is entitled "Requirements for IPv6 Enterprise
>>Firewalls." Frankly, no "enterprise" firewall will be taken seriously
>>without address-overloaded NAT. I realize that's a controversial
>>statement in the IPv6 world but until you get past it you're basically
>>wasting your time on a document which won't be useful to industry.
>
> You've said this before, and it is still an absurdly over-broad statement.
Hi Lee,
That tends to happen when one takes a nuanced topic involving the
intersection of technology with human social behavior and boils it
down to two sentences. Perhaps I could have said, "taken seriously by
enough of your target audience without."
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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