[Mip6-firewall] Next Steps

Yaron Sheffer yaronf at checkpoint.com
Tue Nov 6 12:08:54 EST 2007


I'm probably coming in Sunday evening, unfortunately after the reception.

    Yaron

Suresh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>    I may arrive on Saturday, but I am not sure. I would prefer a phone 
> conference after the deadlines and a face2face probably before/after the 
> welcome reception.
>
> Thanks
> Suresh
>
> Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>   
>> Hi Qiu
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we should
>> * update draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall
>> * arrange a phone conference before the IETF meeting
>> * arrange a face-to-face meeting at IETF#70.
>>
>> I wonder whether someone of you is already arriving on Saturday before 
>> the meeting.
>> Gabor volunteered to setup a phone conf. call (ideally after the 
>> submission deadlines).
>>
>> Ciao
>> Hannes
>>
>>  QIU Ying wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi, Firewall Folks:
>>>
>>> Should we update our draft "draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-01" according to 
>>> the feedback getting at IETF69?
>>>
>>> My comments are below"
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 6. Firewall Recommendations for MIPv6
>>>>   I-D: draft-krishnan-mip6-firewall-01            15 min
>>>>   Suresh Krishnan
>>>> --------------------------------------
>>>> * presentation:
>>>> - different scenario: firewall protecting HA, MN, CN, respectively
>>>> - recommends which kind of traffic should not be blocked by firewalls
>>>> - Adopt as WG draft?
>>>>
>>>> * discussion
>>>> - hesham: just to clarify, only some firewalls in enterprise networks
>>>> block ipsec. Not in public networks
>>>> - frank: your solution makes network less safe (let all IPsec traffic
>>>> to HA through).
>>>>    - Suresh: but this is the HA service, you have to let this
>>>>    traffic through
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Frankly, in practice realm, home agents are very special nodes: 1) only few
>>> nodes are charged as home agents within a networks. 2) Home agent is
>>> normally functioned as a server or a stationary machine at least, so it is
>>> strong enough to protect itself (e.g. Jari mentioned access mechanisms) and
>>> not have to rely on the protection of firewall.
>>>
>>> A firewall that opens few channels for some specified robust nodes do not
>>> means to weaken the strength of network security.
>>>
>>> But in order to prevent the flood attacks, the firewall can constrain the
>>> throughput of these channels.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> - Alex: some operators don't want to allow RO due to security weaknessses
>>>>    - Suresh: that's why we separated rules for RO and for non-RO
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> No matter RO or non RO, the issue of IPsec packets through a firewall can
>>> not avoid due to home binding update.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any more comments?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Qiu Ying
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Roberto Baldessari" <Roberto.Baldessari at nw.neclab.eu>
>>> To: <nemo at ietf.org>; <mext at ietf.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:18 PM
>>> Subject: [MEXT] Nemo/Mext meeting at IETF-70?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> According to the IETF draft agenda, no NEMO nor MEXT WG meeting has been 
>>> scheduled yet. Are there plans to have one at IETF-70?
>>>
>>> Concerning the activity on automotive requirements for NEMO RO, we are in 
>>> the process to update the doc according to the feedback we got at IETF-69 
>>> and preparing it to include/unify requirements from both C2C-CC and ISO 
>>> CALM.
>>>
>>> Anyway, as (I guess) the contributions from CALM won't be ready in time for 
>>> IETF-70, I don't have anything against waiting until IETF-71 to present a 
>>> more complete document. Also, I hope that by then MEXT WG will be actually 
>>> in place.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Roberto
>>>
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