IP6_pi2

[Perry E. Metzger]

This was a very controversial move that Jeff Schiller had the
foresight to drive through. There are still arguments about it, but
overall it was a "good thing".

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John Young writes:
>    Excerpt on Net security from "Upgrading the Internet," a
>    roundtable discussion of the Internet Society on the next
>    generation of Internet protocols, IP Version 6.
> 
>    Discussants: Vinton Cerf, Stephen Deering, Christian
>    Huitema, Haruhisa Ishida, Larry Landweber, Eric Schmidt,
>    Lixia Zhang.
> 
>       A most important aspect of the IPv6 is the somewhat
>       controversial decision to require that all v6
>       implementations support strong privacy and strong
>       authentication. At this level, all of the security
>       problems won't be solved, but we can authenticate and
>       maintain privacy of packets that flow from one machine
>       to another. This will eliminate many security threats in
>       the current Internet, such as source-address-spoofing,
>       source-related routing attacks, password sniffing,
>       connection hijacking, and so on.