IPv6 woes - RFC

Wed Sep 29 02:05:11 UTC 2021

> On 29 Sep 2021, at 05:02, 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

Really?

RFC6092						January 2011

	Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in
	Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for
	Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6092

CableLabs has similar requirements.

Mark
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