IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> Some notes from an IETF Area Director

RE: IPP> Some notes from an IETF Area Director

Babak Jahromi (babakj@MICROSOFT.com)
Mon, 6 Jan 1997 01:16:04 -0800

I was not referring to firewalls as a bad design. They are designed to
protect the intranets against the outside attack. This makes them a
necessity. What is bad is using firewalls not against the outsiders,
rather against the people inside the firewall, enforcing email
censorship, blocking outbound print jobs, etc.

I just don't see the bulk of the market using firewalls against their
own people.

Babak

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>babakj@MICROSOFT.com said:
>> We are not in the busniess of developing software for organizations
>> who think this way. We are targeting the bulk market. Such paranoid
>> organizatoins need to buy custom software adapted to their special
>> needs.
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>If you mean by this that you regard firewalls as an aberration,
>example of bad design, a totally unworkable solution in the
>long run, and something we should ignore when designing real protocols,
>then we are in complete agreement.
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>Unfortunately paranoid organizations have a lot of buying power,
>so not all people may be happy with that attitude.
>Let's just make sure that if we mention firewalls at all, we
>describe them correctly; I prefer to ignore them whenever I can.
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> Harald A
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