IPv6 deployment excuses

Mon Jul 4 10:21:53 UTC 2016

Without firewalls, internet is not very secure, regardless of protocol used.

On 07/04/2016 11:41 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
>> Actually they are not that great. Look at the DDoS mess that UPnP has
>> created and problems for IoT (I call it Internet of trash, as most
>> devices are poorly implemented without safety in mind) folks on all
>> sides.
> 
> Are you saying, without NAT or something like that to restrict
> reachable ports, the Internet, regardless of whether it is with
> IPv4 or IPv6, is not very secure?
> 
> With end to end NAT, you can still configure your UPnP capable NAT
> boxes to restrict port forwarding.
> 
>> The fact that I go to a hotel and that AT&T mobility have limited
>> internet reach is a technology problem that we all must work to fix.
> 
> Want to run a server at the hotel?
> 
> IP mobility helps you, if you have a home agent at your home and
> you can use IP over UDP/TCP over IP as mobility tunnel.
> 
>                          Masataka Ohta
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>> Jared Mauch
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>>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 11:49 PM, Masataka Ohta
>>> <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>
>>> And, to applications running over TCP/UDP, UPnP capable legacy NATs
>>> are transparent, if host TCP/UDP are modified to perform reverse
>>> NAT, information to do so is provided by UPnP.
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