Re: [Int-area] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-iana-exp-2780-01.txt

Stewart Bryant wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Some personal comments on this.
>>
>> I'm in favour of making these assignments. I think they will allow
>> innovation and deflect some of the pressure for assignments for
>> essentially private use.
>>
>> I'd actually question whether we shouldn't state explicitly that
>> it's OK to use these values in production in a private network.
> 
> 
> I think that might be dangerous - sooner or later someone is going
> to willfully disregard 3692.
> 
> There needed to be 3692 warnings in both this draft and right
> next to the entries in the IANA registry.

But are they any different from the warnings appropriate to "private
use" assignments? A private protocol becomes an experiment if it
gets out onto the Internet. I'm not sure I see a distinction. I'm
all in favour of the warnings.

> There may be a good case for recommending that firewalls and
> NAT default to dumping these packets.

That's fairly much the intention of the Security Considerations,
I think - I'm not sure there is much we can teach firewall and
IDS vendors about failsafe defaults.

     Brian

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