RFC 6169 on Security Concerns with IP Tunneling
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Subject: RFC 6169 on Security Concerns with IP Tunneling
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
RFC 6169
Title: Security Concerns with IP Tunneling
Author: S. Krishnan, D. Thaler,
J. Hoagland
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: April 2011
Mailbox: suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com,
dthaler@microsoft.com,
Jim_Hoagland@symantec.com
Pages: 20
Characters: 45018
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-v6ops-tunnel-security-concerns-04.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6169.txt
A number of security concerns with IP tunnels are documented in this
memo. The intended audience of this document includes network
administrators and future protocol developers. The primary intent of this
document is to raise the awareness level regarding the security issues
with IP tunnels as deployed and propose strategies for the mitigation of
those issues. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This document is a product of the IPv6 Operations Working Group of the IETF.
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