--- ben(a)meh.net.nz wrote:
From: Ben
My biggest concern ATM over DDOS, is when IPV6
starts becoming widely used - a lot of people
use NAT as a firewall, and when they implement
IPV6 don't protect their hosts properly.
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Homenet in the IETF is attempting to address that
among other things in the home networks:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/homenet/charter
<quote>
End-to-end communication is both an opportunity
and a concern as it enables new applications but
also exposes nodes in the internal networks to
receipt of unwanted traffic from the Internet.
Firewalls that restrict incoming connections may
be used to prevent exposure, however, this reduces
the efficacy of end-to-end connectivity that IPv6
has the potential to restore.
Home networks need to provide the tools to handle
these situations in a manner accessible to all
users of home networks. Manual configuration is
rarely, if at all, possible, as the necessary
skills and in some cases even suitable management
interfaces are missing.
The purpose of this working group is to focus on
this evolution, in particular as it addresses the
introduction of IPv6, by developing an architecture
addressing this full scope of requirements:
o prefix configuration for routers
o managing routing
o name resolution
o service discovery
o network security
</quote>
scott
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