Re: Broadband Forum liaison to IETF on IPv6 security

[Thomas Narten <[e-mail]>]

> The liaison was posted in March 2009. It can be found here:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/documents/LIAISON/file621.doc

This is too skimpy of problem statement for me to understand the
details of the problem.

I don't know that a lot is needed. Maybe 2-3 pages is enough. But show
me a diagram, label the pieces, show me the properties of the pieces
and explain what the *exact* problem is. Who needs to do DAD? Why
doesn't it work? etc.

And note that comments like (quoting from the above statement):

  "We can envision a number of scenarios, both malice or vendor
   incompetence by which this can happen."

There is very little anyone can do to prevent "vendor
incompetence". I hope you aren't asking the IETF to solve this
problem! :-)

Thomas