Re: R41 in draft-ietf-v6ops-cpe-simple-security-07

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2009-08-04 10:19, Mark Baugher wrote:
> 
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:56 AM, james woodyatt wrote:
> 
>> I think it should suffice to delete the second sentence from R41
>> entirely.  It would then read as follows:
>>
>>   R41: Gateways SHOULD implement a protocol to permit applications to
>>   solicit inbound traffic without advance knowledge of the addresses of
>>   exterior nodes with which they expect to communicate.
> 
> Why do we recommend this function for IPv6?

How else would you deal with a CPE firewall that has default deny
for incoming packets? Manual config?

   Brian