Mike, Thanks for raising the question. The answer will depend on the charter discussion. Anybody is welcome to comment. This is my personal view: If you look for example the IETF Middlebox work, NATs were part of the charter. An answer may also depend on the outcome of the question if this should be a Research Group or a Working Group. A WG charter needs to be very focussed and our Area Directors may prefer a limited the scope with clearly defined deliverables. The scope may therefore be limited to Firewalls. There is also a BoF that wants to look at VPN's. A RG could pursue a wider range of middlebox services such as mentioned in RFC 3303. Kind regards .. Leon Gommans. Mike 'Mike' Jones wrote:
Would it be useful to discuss NAT at the same time as firewalls?
I think NAT raises some issues that are similar to firewalls. I'm coming from an AFS in globus2 based grids perspective and have also seen clashes between globus-IO and NAT.
I'm afraid I'm not able to goto Korea to stick my hand up and ask the question there, sorry!
Cheers, Mike
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Mike Helm wrote:
LG, can you put me on the agenda? I'd like to mention 3 things (provided the material all shows up :^) that might be of interest: some MPLS work at ESnet, a PNNL localhost-based firewall solution that should be grid friendly, and an interesting use-case from Fusion Grid (some have seen this, at last GGF).
Thanks, ==mwh Michael Helm ESnet/LBNL