Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

Fri Apr 18 00:51:03 UTC 2014

While you're at it, the document can explain to admins who have been burned, often more than once, by the pain of re-numbering internal services at static addresses how IPv6 without NAT will magically solve this problem.

Matthew Kaufman

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> On Apr 17, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Brandon Ross <bross at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Sander Steffann wrote:
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>>> 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.
>> 
>> I disagree. While there certainly will be organisations that want such a 'feature' it is certainly not a requirement for every (I hope most, but I might be optimistic) enterprises.
> 
> And I not only agree with Sander, but would also argue for a definitive statement in a document like this SPECIFICALLY to help educate the enterprise networking community on how to implement a secure border for IPv6 without the need for NAT.  Having a document to point at that has been blessed by the IETF/community is key to helping recover the end-to-end principle.  Such a document may or may not be totally in scope for a "firewall" document, but should talk about concepts like default-deny inbound traffic, stateful inspection and the use of address space that is not announced to the Internet and/or is completely blocked at borders for all traffic.
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> Heck, we could even make it less specific to IPv6 and create a document that describes these concepts and show how NAT is not necessary nor wise for IPv4, either.  (Yes, yes, other than address conservation.)
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