RE: draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-00.txt & NAT security [2.2]

["Christian Huitema" <huitema@windows.microsoft.com>]

> For example, as I mentioned, modern OSes have firewalling out of the
> box. From what I'm aware of, the only component missing, at least in
the
> commercial space i.e., products you can buy, for scalable host based
> firewalling is mechanisms to deploy the (corporate) firewalling policy
> to the host. 

Actually, the firewall in Windows XP/SP2 "professional" can be
controlled by "group policy", automatically applying the firewall policy
defined by the (windows) domain administrator.

-- Christian Huitema