Re: On filibusters as a mode of technical discussion

[bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:00:21AM -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
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> This draft was commissioned to describe a simple stateful default-deny firewall. What we decided yesterday that it would continue to describe is a simple stateful default-deny firewall. Everyone doesn't have to install one, and we decided as a group that we would have no recommendation whether they should. But for those that choose to install a simple stateful default-deny firewall, this note indicates how that should behave.
> 

	if i may, if this draft was commissioned (by whom?) then it seems prudent to also
	have a draft to descrbe a simple, stateful default-accept firewall if only to provide
	a balanced choice. Otherwise we (the IETF) end up with only a single choice defined
	and after all, if there is only a single choice, what choice is there?

--bill