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RE: [Nea] UPDATED: WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea)

2006-10-24 08:10:39

From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu] 
 
My network, my rules. If you don't like them go to the 
nearest Panera and use their free WiFi.

If you want to connect to my network, my rules apply. 
That's not arbitrary, that's my right and my choice.

perhaps.  but I don't see why the IETF should provide tools 
to help you impose those rules - especially if to do so harms 
the flexibility of the Internet.

Because the architecture you propose is failed and unworkable.

You are still stuck in the Internet of 1980, you are like the hippie who turns 
up at Aldermaston for the Ban the Bomb march with a sign saying 'ban the 
Gattlin Gun', possibly a relevant concern if the march was being held in 1910 
but utterly irrelevant to the issue of the day.

The Internet has a billion users and in the future it will be common for houses 
to have over a hundred network connected devices.

Very few of those hundred network connected devices will or should be Internet 
connected. I do not care what you think I might need but I do not want to spend 
my time worrying whether Mr Coffee is hacking into the fridge or the microwave 
is hosting a kiddie porn site.

The best way to stop such nonsense is to recognize what every mainstream 
security specialist working in the field recognized long ago - there is a 
difference between the network and the inter-network and connection to either 
is a privilege that should only be granted on the basis of need.

Your political strategy is naïve and fragile. You mistake a tactic for a 
strategy. Insisting that every component that connects to any network be 
absolutely unrestricted in its capabilities is unworkable, unsustainable and 
violates the security principle of least privilege. It is a tactic that is 
doomed to failure.

Your goal appears to be to ensure that individual Internet subscribers have 
unrestricted connectivity to the Internet. The appropriate strategy for that 
goal is a consumer reports type strategy, measure what is delivered, award 
seals of approval accordingly.

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