Re: [Nea] UPDATED: WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea)

["Alan DeKok" <aland at deployingradius.com>]

Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> no, my argument is that networks are less likely to impose draconian
> policies on hosts if there is no standard interface by which they can
> implement those draconian policies. 

  The flies in the face of 20 years of computing history.  Customers
want a solution, and vendors will supply one to them.  If there is no
standards-based solution, vendors will supply proprietary solutions.
This goes for both desktop applications and networking protocols.

  The only way to guarantee a free and open network is to build it on
free and open standards.  The alternative is that vendors build
solutions for the majority OS, and tell everyone else "too bad".
There are any number of examples of this happening over the past 3
decades.  The solution to the proprietary problem is *always* open
standards.

  Make no mistake, people *will* be deploying access controls for
their network.  The only choice in front of us now is whether those
controls are proprietary, or standards-based.

> I'm not saying that no networks
> will do this (as some are already doing this), but I do think it's less
> likely that networks in will do this  - particularly access networks as
> opposed to enterprise networks.

  I'm not sure any NEA variant will be applied to access networks.

  Alan DeKok.
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