[Fvga-wg] New OGF document "Firewall Traversal Protocol" in public comment

[Niederberger, Ralph]

Dear all,

The document " Firewall Traversal Protocol (FiTP)" has begun public comment
on 2011-10-18.  

Description: Firewalls control traffic flows between internal and external
communication partners. 
Mostly traffic from inside to outside is allowed, but traffic coming from
outside must be explicitly configured. The rules which packets may traverse
the firewall and which not are normally configured manually by firewall
administrators. To speed up such kind of access list changes, it would be
desirable to dynamically signal access requests and automatically change
those access lists. Though some protocols are inspectable by firewalls
already like FTP, SIP and H.323, a general protocol, which could be used for
signaling dynamically required access rules, is not available until now. 
This paper proposes a standard protocol, which would allow such signaling in
a secure manner. Firewalls which have installed a corresponding inspection
module could be configured automatically, which would ease the configuration
of such systems a lot.

Please visit:

     http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=381

and consider reading and providing feedback.
A brief affirmation is very useful to demonstrate community input and
support.  
More detailed analysis is also, of course, welcome.

All documents in public comment are accessible here:

  http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment

Please also feel free to forward this email to further interested people, 
so that a maximum of feedback can be gained.

Best regards

Ralph Niederberger

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 Institute for Advanced Simulation

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