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Re: I-D.ietf-v6ops-cpe-simple-security-09



On Mar 4, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Fred Baker wrote:

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>> 2. Rec-42.  Pardon me if I'm being dense, but what are you saying here?  That service providers cannot manage the device from an exterior interface?
> 
> I should hope they couldn't without the network administration actively doing something to permit them to. As we have discussed privately, a protocol that enables an entity outside my administrative domain to control equipment witin my administrative domain without my explicit authorization is a security issue.

That's right.  And the sentence is clear as it is written.  I misread it.

Mark