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List:       meego-dev
Subject:    [MeeGo-dev] developers wanted for MeeGo, Xmpp, Ipv6 project
From:       thiago () kde ! org (Thiago Macieira)
Date:       2010-07-08 22:43:33
Message-ID: 201007090043.33479.thiago () kde ! org
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On Friday 9. July 2010 00.20.29 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu., 2010-07-08 at 19:29 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > IPv6 will not remove firewalls. People will have unique addresses, but
> > reachability is not a guarantee.
> 
> And with IPv6 end-to-end is (again) the norm, not the exception. The
> filtering should be done on the box itself, not at the perimeter.

Uh... no.

The IPv6 protocol makes NAT unnecessary, but firewalls at perimeters will 
continue to exist. I doubt companies will allow any packet from the Internet 
to reach their intranets.

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