Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

[Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.com>]

Hi Iljitsch,

> On 6-sep-2005, at 19:37, Eliot Lear wrote:
> 
>> I seek a change to the proposed ISMS charter that requests the working
>> group pay attention to firewall and NAT concerns.  The current
>> envisioned approach will not work through firewalls
> 
> 
> I consider the fact that random people across the internet can't  manage
> my equipment a feature rather than a bug.

Use of a well known port that you can block will actually make it EASIER
for you to make use of that "feature".  Today if you leave your PC up
with various forms of commercial software, you have no idea who is
connecting to what.

> The IETF has been doing extensive work on NAT traversal, have a look 
> and see if you can reuse some existing mechanism.

All mechanisms used with the possible exception of an additional SNMP
table will be re-used from existing IETF work (mostly SSH with help from
the fact that it's based on TCP).

Eliot

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