On 28 jul 2009, at 9:26, james woodyatt wrote:
I intend to query the meeting participants this afternoon about a remaining open item that arose during the last WGLC. That item is the question over whether recommendation R41 should be removed.
R41: Gateways SHOULD implement a protocol to permit applications tosolicit inbound traffic without advance knowledge of the addresses ofexterior nodes with which they expect to communicate. If implemented, this protocol MUST have a specification that meets the requirements of [RFC3979], [RFC4879] and [RFC5378].
Assuming that the user is going to open up incoming sessions for an application, it's more convenient to be able to do that on the host rather than on the CPE. Then again I wouldn't want random visitors to be able to mess up my network.
I guess middle ground would be that such a protocol would either need to be enabled explicitly, or would need some kind of authentication token, maybe a la bluetooth pairing.