Reflections On Host Firewalls
draft-iab-host-firewalls-00
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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft that was ultimately published as RFC 7288.
Expired & archived
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| Author | Dave Thaler | ||
| Last updated | 2013-12-23 (Latest revision 2013-06-21) | ||
| Replaces | draft-thaler-iab-host-firewalls | ||
| RFC stream | Internet Architecture Board (IAB) | ||
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| Stream | IAB state | Active IAB Document | |
| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| RFC Editor Note | (None) |
This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:
Abstract
In today's Internet, the need for firewalls is generally accepted in the industry and indeed firewalls are widely deployed in practice. Often the result is that software may be running and potentially consuming resources, but then communication is blocked by a firewall. It's taken for granted that this end state is either desirable or the best that can be achieved in practice, rather than (for example) an end state where the relevant software is not running or is running in a way that would not result in unwanted communication. In this document, we explore the issues behind these assumptions and provide suggestions on improving the architecture going forward.
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