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[Kim Holburn]

On 2008/Aug/31, at 10:38 AM, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 09:37 +0200, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> I remember reasonably recently reading a paper by one of the early
>> internet pioneers (I can't remember who at the moment, perhaps it was
>> Van Jacobson) saying that while TCP/IP was designed for a different
>> time and some aspects of the design are not necessarily appropriate  
>> to
>> today's internet.

> PS: I'd like to hear more specifics about these "serious security
> issues". Why they are they the fault of the network protocol? How   
> does
> NAT ameliorate them? The phrase as you have used it smells a bit  
> like a
> George W Bush speech to me, full of unspecified, unnamed dangers...  
> FUD,
> in other words.


http://cleanslate.stanford.edu/seminars/jacobson.pdf

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