IPv6 woes - RFC

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 20:06:06 UTC 2021


On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 3:02 PM Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> > Heh, NAT is not that evil after all. Do you expect that all the home
> > people will get routable public IPs for all they toys inside house?
>
> in ipv6 they can.  and it can have consequences, see
>
>     NATting Else Matters: Evaluating IPv6 Access Control Policies in
>     Residential Networks;
>     Karl Olson, Jack Wampler, Fan Shen, and Nolen Scaife
>
>
> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-72582-2_22.pdf
>
> the ietf did not give guidance to cpe vendors to protect toys inside
> your LAN
>
>
guidance aside... 'Time To Market' (or "Minimum Viable Product - MVP!) is
likely to impact all of our security 'requirements'. :(
I also thought 'homenet' (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/homenet) was
supposed to have provided the
guidance you seek here?
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