[wg-all] New document published: Firewall Issues overview

[Greg Newby]

This information track document is now published as GFD-I.083.
You can download it here:
  http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?final

Title: Firewall Issues overview

Authors/editors: Ralph Niederberger, William Allcock, Leon Gommans,
Egon Grünter, Thijs Metsch, Inder Monga, Gian Luca Volpato, Christian
Grimm.

Abstract

Several kinds of network devices like Firewalls are used to protect an
institutional network against malicious attacks from the public
Internet. This document enumerates and illustrates a selected set of
grid scenarios that encounter some issues when dealing with firewall
types of devices. The knowledge and experience gathered through these
use-cases is utilized to classify the issues into homogeneous
categories that can be used by grid application developers and
management personnel as guidance. These categories will be used to
propose new or recommend existing academic and/or standards based
solutions to the grid community.