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Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 17 April 2014 13:09 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:

> Providing a mechanism for an IPv6 LAN to shut down the IPv4 mobile
> network on a device which is unlikely to be enterprise controlled is not 
> a solution in the real world, but only an attack vector.

One could imagine that the signal is authenticated, for instance by SEND. 
The user can choose to trust these kinds of signals the same way they 
enter SSIDs to connect to automatically.

As I said before, this is all about policy.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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