[ipv6hackers] (IETF I-D); Implications of IPv6 Addressing on Security Operations (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-addressing-00.txt)

[Markus Reschke]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2023, Andrew Walding wrote:

Hi!

>   - I will start by being a bit picky.  I think the wording describing the
>   issues is spread too vaguely and needs to be more specific as to the
>   addressing issues.  For example in your email you say compared to IPv4
>   where you are usually dealing with "an" address from a private or public
>   network, but in IPv6 a given host could have multiple addresses in multiple
>   prefixes/networks then compounded with the various address types of IPv6,
>   yet this is muddled in the document itself.  I mean that is the point in
>   the end - you cannot deal with IPv6 the same way you deal with IPv4 in this
>   security scenario.

Good point! Since the draft is intented to educate IPv6 newbies, it would 
be helpful to provide more concrete examples and recommendations.

ciao
  Markus
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