Re: simple security

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:39:17AM -0400, Dunn, Jeffrey H. wrote:
> Specifically, if home networks are not supporting servers, e.g.,
> web sites, then there is no need to allows sessions associated with
> servers to be initiated by Internet hosts.

Have you heard the term "peer-to-peer networking" mentioned before?

If all we want is "people can go from their home to web servers run by
professionals!!" then we don't need IPv6.

The whole point of having a new protocol is to restore end-to-end
communication - and that includes "people in their home" - VoIP, file
sharing, online gaming (without a server run in someone's data centre),
etc. - and if you put a deny-by-default firewall in their way, all
this won't work.

Gert Doering
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