Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

[James Seng <jseng at pobox.org.sg>]

The question: smart terminal or smart network?

I believe in smart terminal. Nothing there suggest you should not run 
your firewall or any other filtering software on your end-terminal.

End-machine are vulnerable? Then fixed the end-machine. It isnt rocket 
science.

-James Seng

Eric Rescorla wrote:
> James Seng <jseng at pobox.org.sg> writes:
>
>
> > Why should the users be limited to what IT managers decide is good or bad?
> >
> > Internet is build on dumb network, smart terminal. End-users are
> > suppose to be able to put up their own services, not just running some
> > apps. This has been the Internet principles and have serves us well so
> > far.
>
> No large production network can run this way. The end machines are 
> simply too vulnerable. Without firewally and service restriction,
> you'll have your entire network compromised very quickly.
>
> -Ekr