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Re: IP6_pi2
This was a very controversial move that Jeff Schiller had the
foresight to drive through. There are still arguments about it, but
overall it was a "good thing".
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John Young writes:
> Excerpt on Net security from "Upgrading the Internet," a
> roundtable discussion of the Internet Society on the next
> generation of Internet protocols, IP Version 6.
>
> Discussants: Vinton Cerf, Stephen Deering, Christian
> Huitema, Haruhisa Ishida, Larry Landweber, Eric Schmidt,
> Lixia Zhang.
>
> A most important aspect of the IPv6 is the somewhat
> controversial decision to require that all v6
> implementations support strong privacy and strong
> authentication. At this level, all of the security
> problems won't be solved, but we can authenticate and
> maintain privacy of packets that flow from one machine
> to another. This will eliminate many security threats in
> the current Internet, such as source-address-spoofing,
> source-related routing attacks, password sniffing,
> connection hijacking, and so on.