Re: [BEHAVE] Re: CPE equipments and stateful filters

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Jul 31, 2007, at 10:46, Dan Wing wrote:
> [ I wrote: ]
> > Neither of these two forms of traffic could reasonably be  
> > described as "unsolicited" in this case.
>
> We have different definitions of 'solicited traffic' and  
> 'unsolicited traffic'.

That seems to be the case.

> What are your definitions?

I have a more human-centered view of what it means for traffic to be  
solicited: if a human network administrator is expecting the traffic,  
then any protocol or method initiated by an administrator for the  
purpose of enabling an exception to the "denial by default" policy is  
an explicit solicitation.

For example, an HTTP or SMTP server could solicit inbound connections  
by sending an NSLP CREATE/EXT message to the appropriate NSIS  
responder.  A more common scenario might be the case where an Apple  
File Sharing (AFP) protocol server advertises a DNS-SD record with  
wide-area Bonjour™ and opens an IPv4/NAT translation for it with NAT- 
PMP.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering